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Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

Joseph Sobran

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Joseph Sobran
Age: 64 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 23
Died: 2010
Died: September 30
Journalist
Writer
Ypsilanti
Michigan
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Freedom
Littles
Little
Right
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Permission
Coming

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