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"The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism."
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Source: Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History by William Safire, (p. 81), 2004.
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