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Aryeh Neier — ink portrait
§ The minds · b. 1937 · Germany / US · Civil-liberties leader

Aryeh Neier

Defend the freedom you hate

Civil liberties without exception.

Progressive Social Libertarian →
Economic−6
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Governance−50
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+64
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The ACLU leader who defended even Nazis' right to march in Skokie, then co-founded Human Rights Watch — the embodiment of civil-libertarian principle applied without exception.

social

Progressive architect of the modern human-rights movement.

economic

Broadly centrist; rights, not economics, his battleground.

governance

Absolutist defender of speech, assembly and due process.

Notable for
  • Led the ACLU
  • Defended free speech in Skokie
  • Co-founded Human Rights Watch
free-speechhuman-rightsdue-process
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