As a student of history, I am reminded constantly of one fundamental truth. For most of human existence, the facts of your birth defined the reality of your life: what job you could do, how much education you had access to, who you could marry, and most certainly what you could say.
The freedom to speak isn’t brand new. Most historians locate the origins…
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