"Wizards and Witches, citizens... friends. We have lived through war, strife, and bloodshed; and we have prevailed. Yet we are still living as people in fear. And now—when our very rights to assemble here today are in peril—we slowly realize that we have been afraid of the wrong thing. When Ogden invoked the Emergency Powers Act, we hoped that it would save us. Instead, we now face what our ancestors faced in desperate moments in history; during the Burning Times before we implemented the Statute of Secrecy, when Grindelwald rose to power, during the first war with Voldemort, as well as other times of exaggerated crises and manipulative fear-mongering: we are faced with a government more dangerous to our liberty than the enemy it claims to protect us from.