Matches in DBpedia 2015-04 for { ?s ?p "Town square test is a threshold test for a free society proposed by a former Soviet dissident and human rights activist Natan Sharansky, now a notable politician in Israel. The test is found in Sharansky's book, The Case for Democracy (first published in 2004), and it reads: If a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society."@en }
Showing triples 1 to 1 of
1
with 100 triples per page.
- Town_square_test comment "Town square test is a threshold test for a free society proposed by a former Soviet dissident and human rights activist Natan Sharansky, now a notable politician in Israel. The test is found in Sharansky's book, The Case for Democracy (first published in 2004), and it reads: If a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society.".