American Values Of The Freedom Of Speech And The Press

Term Paper Title	American Values Of The Freedom Of Speech And The Press
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American Values of the Freedom of Speech and the Press
by Andy Schultz

American’s have many different values they hold close to them. Some of these values are
the amount of money they are making, their job status, their popularity in school and in other
functions, and a good education. The biggest value Americans have is the Freedom of Speech and
the Press.
The value we get from the freedom of speech and the press is enormous. It allows us to
understand what is happening in the world and to share our feeling’s on certain subjects. This
statement was tested in one court case about a student in a high school in Pine Forest, North
Carolina in 1971. The students name was Charlie Quaterman, his crime was that he published an
underground newspaper that he handed out in school. The school suspended him for ten days and
had him on probation. He refused to let the school stop him from telling others what he and his
classmates thoughts on things. In one of his papers he wrote “WE HAVE TO PREPARE TO
FIGHT IN THE HALLS AND IN THE CLASSROOMS, OUT IN THE STREETS BECUASE
THE SCHOOLS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE. IF WE HAVE TO-WE’LL BURN THE
BUILDINGS OF OUR SCHOOLS DOWN TO SHOW THE PIGS THAT WE WANT AN
EDUCATION THAT WON’T BRAINWASH US INTO BEING RACIST. AND THAT WE
WANT AN EDUCATION THAT WILL TEACH US THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THINGS
WE NEED TO KNOW, SO WE CAN BETTER SERVE THE PEOPLE!!!!” (Zerman, p.3). He
had challenged the school and the courts by what he said. He won his court case and showed
people that the freedom of speech and the press is a privilege and a too

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