... Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel, "Fahrenheit 451", protagonist Guy Montag decides to put an end to the censorship of literature in his futuristic-society, where firemen punish anyone who is known to own a book. Galileo Galilei stood up against the Catholic Church's doctrine with his scientific evidence, disputing that the world revolved around the sun as opposed to the Catholic perspective that "the world is firmly established, it ... cannot be moved." In a corrupt or unjust society, speaking and standing up for yourself and your beliefs is much more effective that keeping your thoughts a...

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