I deny the right of any one—individually or collectively—to set up an inquisition of thought. Thought is, or should be, free. My social views and political opinions are my personal concern. I owe no one responsibility for them. Responsibility begins only with the effects of thought expressed in action. Not before. Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech and press, I may tersely define thus: no opinion a law—no opinion a crime. For the government to attempt to control thought, to prescribe certain opinions or proscribe others, is the height of despotism. Do you realize the menace of the Anti-Anarchist Law, under cover of which scores of men and women—not only Anarchists, but Socialists, I. W. W.’s, and ordinary workers—are arrested daily and held for deportation? As =EMMA GOLDMAN= pointed out at her deportation hearing: Under the mask of the same Anti-Anarchist law every criticism of a corrupt administration, every attack on Governmental abuse, every manifestation of sympathy with the struggling of another country in the pangs of a new birth—in short, every free expression of untrammeled thought may be suppressed utterly, without even the semblance of an unprejudiced hearing or a fair trial. HELP US FIGHT THIS MENACE =EMMA GOLDMAN= { { =Committee= =ALEXANDER BERKMAN= { =Send Contributions to:= =STELLA COMYN 36 Grove Street New York= _LEAGUE for the AMNESTY of POLITICAL PRISONERS_ solicits your interest and financial support for its important work of securing an Amnesty for all political and industrial prisoners. * * * * * This =AMNESTY LEAGUE= also looks after the interests of political and industrial prisoners in various institutions, and supplies them with finances and with what little personal comforts prison rules permit. We ask you to contribute generously to our Prisoners’ Relief Fund. The =LEAGUE= also asks your co-operation to enable it to take care of the immediate needs of the women and children left without support because of the many and sudden arrests of radicals subject to deportation. Their need is very urgent. * * * * * =LEAGUE FOR THE AMNESTY OF POLITICAL PRISONERS= =Make checks payable to:= =M. E. FITZGERALD 857 Broadway New York= =Send for Literature on Amnesty= SENTENCED TO TWENTY YEARS PRISON