“You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don’t. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.”

— Charlton Heston

Winning the Cultural War (1999)
Source: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/charltonhestonculturalwar.htm 16 February 1999

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