Salman Rushdie Quotes About Free Speech

Quotes about: Free Speech

• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  Salman Rushdie

  Honesty, Integrity, Expression

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

  Salman Rushdie

  Freedom, Games, Speech

  Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', archive.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

• People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It's like that. If you're going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.

  Salman Rushdie

  Kings, Ku Klux Klan, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, People, Speech

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Speech, Problem

• Free speech is life itself.

  Salman Rushdie

  Speech, Censorship, Free Speech

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

• It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

  Salman Rushdie

  Speech, Sides, Free Speech

• Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Speech, Argument

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, People, Upset

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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