“Color” and “niceness” — now the limits of much civilized discourse — are but a small part of reality, and to unreasonably restrict speech and debate to them is itself a failure in civilized discourse. Truly free speech [1]recalls the fact that things must be upheld, defended, and preserved and other things must be rejected in the very name of what it is to be a rational being.
On civility
James V. Schall, S.J., The HillFriday, January 5, 2018
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