"Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks."

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You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

— Monica Denise Brown