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'Without free speech you cannot claim or protect your other rights'

So says AC Grayling over at Comment is Free. Professor Grayling, normally known as a quite strident critic of religion, points out that Articles 18 (which guarantees freedom of worship) and 19 (freedom of speech) of the UN Declaration on Human Rights must be read together: they embody the ideas of freedom of conscience and […]

By Index on Censorship

08 Dec 08

So says AC Grayling over at Comment is Free. Professor Grayling, normally known as a quite strident critic of religion, points out that Articles 18 (which guarantees freedom of worship) and 19 (freedom of speech) of the UN Declaration on Human Rights must be read together: they embody the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom to express one’s conscience.

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