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The right to express ourselves and live freely – to speak, to publish, to associate, to assemble, to call on our government – are the fundamental rights protected by the First Amendment.
The ACLU-NJ has worked since its founding in 1960 to protect and defend these freedoms by defending protesters, challenging censorship, protecting student speech, fighting for public information, and so much more.