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Emanuel Cleaver: I think that free speech has to be practiced even when it is abhorrent.

On the recordJune 25, 2019
I think that free speech has to be practiced even when it is abhorrent.
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

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Cleaver emphasizes the importance of free speech, even for offensive views.

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