Milton’s warning still echoes: Liberty survives only when citizens defend it
By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project
A lesson and inspiration about standing up for liberty from Milton
I have been listening to a lecture series on English literature and busily adding things to my reading list as I go. If you remember a Friday a ways back where I put up an anonymous poem “Yesterday’s Flowers,” that poem was one of them.
I wanted to share another, this time directly related to politics: it’s Milton’s Areopagitica.
The piece is an essay by Milton, a defense of free speech specific to a free press (in the context of defending himself and what he’d said).
I will leave it to you to read the essay and/or an essay by the group FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) on Milton’s piece, linked second below.
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