Freedom Of Expression Quotes - Page 5

• We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

  Dario Fo

  Italian, Expression, Church

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• The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

  Eliot Engel

  Country, Rights, Expression

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• When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Body, Great Freedom

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• None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Expression, America, People

  Address to the National Book Awards ceremony in New York City. The New York Times, p. 42, March 09, 1967.

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• Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, Marriage, Love You

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• People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.

  Joe Lhota

  Believe, Expression, People

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• When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Writing, House, Freedom Of Speech

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Other Colours”, p.269, Faber & Faber

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• What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Passion, Creativity

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• There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation of the Western media and Western leaders, religious and lay, to protect the most basic rights of freedom of expression, whether in satire on any other form. The West must not appease, it must not be silenced. We must send a united message to the terrorists: Your violence cannot destroy our soul.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Religious, Media, Expression

  "How to Respond to Islamist Kalashnikovs in the Heart of Paris" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2015.

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• No one can give you freedom but you.

  Byron Katie

  Giving

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• It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate dissent, freedom of association and so on.

  Mary Robinson

  Expression, Association, Requirements

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• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Fate'.

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• There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Cutting, Expression, Explicit

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• We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Children, Party, Expression

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Expression, Imagination

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

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• When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Expression, Insecurity, Enlightenment

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• In Kashmir, rights relating to life, liberty, dignity of the people, and freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, embodied in the fundamental covenants and enforceable by courts of law, have been gravely violated.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Rights, Expression, Law

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone, Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know.

  Murray Gurfein

  Lying, Expression, Order

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• The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hands, Weapons, Evening

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. December 5, 1955.

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• The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Expression, Vision, Minorities

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Media, Expression

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.75, Routledge

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• I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Distance, Fall, Expression

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel, Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Exercise, Expression

  "Cartoon conflicts" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2006.

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• The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Rights, Expression

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• When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential campaign, Eszterhas wrote "Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression."

  David Shuster

  Running, Men, Expression

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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