Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power...” ~ Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) ProfessorSource: Speech, American Sociological Society, 1914