Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.
Salman RushdieThe world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
Salman RushdieThere is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.
Salman Rushdie