“The ultimate test of a society’s freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it’s how it treats its dissidents.” - Glenn Greenwald

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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky “you can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners”.

    Mahatma Ghandi who said, "A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

    Winston Churchill said that you measure the degree of civilisation of a society by how it treats its weakest members.