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We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged. Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

Address to the Jury, by Emma Goldman
Delivered during her Anti-Conscription trial, New York City, July 9, 1917. (Emphasis added.)

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