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need to press on all the people who awakened to the condition that Julian Assange is suffering
under and his family. I am especially concerned about his family. This is just a wrong, it's an
evil. And we have the power to change it. It takes waking up and it takes acting, that's all. And
also because we are now, all of us, locked down, locked in and locked up with the virus, what a
perfect time to just revolt and say enough already. Free all these people like Julian, although I
don't know how many people are quite like Julian, he's quite exceptional. But it's time to stand
up and say, "free the people".
Jimmy Dore
Yes, agreed. Let me just ask you one more question. Frederick Douglass once said, "To
suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the right of the hearer as well as those of the
speaker". Can you talk about how free speech is integral to the struggle for social justice?
Alice Walker
Well, totally, because if you can't talk about it, how can you do anything about it? And if you're
afraid to speak, how can you ever move anywhere? Because it's absolutely essential. People
can disagree, that's their right. But it should not be their right to lock you up for saying
something they don't like. That's ridiculous. And we actually outnumber these people who are
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