was so. and not only that, he believed that if everybody spoke their own mind, and we actually had the tolerance to listen to everybody else speaking their mind, that the overall mind would lead us in the right direction. in other words he had faith in that if everybody could have their say, the country would be all right, and that we would go in the right direction, generation after generation.
not everybody believes that, even today. there are people who want to cut short other people’s speech. there are people who are afraid that if they say the wrong thing they’d be foolish so they don’t say anything. there 