This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, May 26, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown at the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty Dinner held last night, former head of the ACLU, Nadine Strossen, presented

the awards a Danish newspaper editor Fleming Rose.

This is a portion of her remarks on freedom of speech in the face of threats.

I am honored to present the Friedman Prize for advancing liberty to someone who has been my hero ever since he burst upon the

worldwide scene in 2005 with a bold challenge to the growing self-censorship in Denmark and Europe,

and who has also continued to challenge the increasing self-censorship everywhere, including right here in the U.S.

Too many politicians, journalists, and others refrain from candidly criticizing even the most discriminatory, repressive, and violent actions

that too many Muslims carry out in the name of Islam fearing charges of Islamophobia.

In contrast, Fleming Rose continues to speak out not only despite such false charges but even more bravely

despite being subject to credible death threats the same threats that have

already been carried out through brutal murders of others

who also have refused to stop analyzing, questioning, criticizing, and satirizing.

Fleming Rose embodies the courage that is the cornerstone

of our liberties, as eloquently described by another of my First Amendment heroes,

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

As Brandeis declared, those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

To quote the concluding phrase of our national anthem,

we cannot remain the land of the free unless we remain the home of the brave. To be sure it's certainly legitimate to shield oneself as well as one's

employees and others from credible threats of violence.

However, in too many cases, the reason for not saying something

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