“I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.”

—  J. Frank Dobie

J. Frank Dobie, cited in: United States. Congress Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the … Congress, Vol. 110, part 17. (1964). p. 22821.

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