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Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

Alan Dershowitz

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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
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Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
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I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.
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In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.
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Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.
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I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.
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The best answer to bad speech is good speech
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The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'
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I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.
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Ideas don't desert you ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.
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Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.
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I am attacked equally by the hard right and the hard left for expressing what they regard as politically incorrect views. I thrive on such controversy and welcome it. It only encourages me to speak out more. I have not been affected by attacks on me for defending freedom of speech and due process.
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In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.
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My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.
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It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.
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Ed Koch will never rest in peace. That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say it's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.
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I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.
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Nobody wants justice.
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The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
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African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their experiences to bear.
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I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
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