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As a young constitutional lawyer, I was put to the first amendment test when I was called on to defend racists and neo-Nazis. I really had no choice. Surely now we know that none of us do. Free speech is unequivocal, unpolitical, and indivisible.

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

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Congressman David Dreier: Will the gentlewoman yield?
Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!

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