Daily Inspiration Quote by Floyd Abrams

The triple-hit cadence of "fought and fought and fought" is a lawyerly flex dressed up as plain speech: not poetry for its own sake, but a strategic insistence on record. Floyd Abrams is signaling stamina, resources, and principle all at once, and he does it with a rhythm that sounds almost conversational, as if the facts are too obvious to dress up. Repetition here works like a closing argument: it compresses years of motions, appeals, and reputational risk into a single verbal drumbeat.

Name-checking Texas and New York is doing more than geography. It’s a cultural map of American power and polarity: Texas as a shorthand for conservative political gravity and aggressive local pressure; New York as the media-and-law capital where national precedent gets minted. Abrams is invoking a company forced to defend itself on hostile turf and home turf, implying the fight wasn’t performative. It happened where it counted, across jurisdictions with different audiences, judges, and political temperatures.

The subtext is a rebuttal to cynicism about corporate media courage. By emphasizing that CBS "fought" repeatedly, Abrams is implicitly contrasting litigation-backed conviction with the industry’s more common impulse to settle, apologize, or preemptively censor. The "very fact" framing is classic advocate’s logic: treat endurance as evidence. If they kept fighting, the argument goes, they must have believed the story, the principle, or the First Amendment stakes were worth the burn.