is its wisdom and compassion, and against the weight of the world's iniquity the best resource is the imaginative labor of trying to tell the truth. Not an easy task, but the courage required of the writer, if he or she seriously attempts it - and the response called forth in the reader, if he or she recognizes the attempt as an honest one - increases the common stores of energy and hope.
-Lapham, Lewis.
Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
. Penguin Books. 2004. 129.
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