Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 17

• Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

  Lucien Bourjeily

  Expression, People, Way

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• After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Running, Song, Reading

  "ESPN severs ties with Hank Williams Jr". www.cnn.com. October 6, 2011.

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• People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people attack people's basic rights and livelihoods, I'm concerned about it. And as a citizen of Queensland and nothing else, I've got the right to express my view.

  Clive Palmer

  Country, Australia, Rights

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• The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore, I think this is the time to put some restrictions on it.

  J. James Exon

  Thinking, Years, Television

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• The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Lying, Law, Agnostic

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• We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Secret, Important

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• Our freedom of speech is freedom or death,
  We got to fight the powers that be!

  Chuck D

  Rap, Fighting, Hip Hop

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Country, Freedom, Patriotic

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• Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Law, Censorship, Blunt

  Alan Dershowitz (2008). “Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism”, p.191, John Wiley & Sons

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• Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Free Education, Lunch

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• I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

  Dana Carvey

  Country, Hate, Thinking

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• More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

  Michael Anti

  Rights, Chinese, Privilege

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• The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.

  William O. Douglas

  Graduation, Essence, Academic Freedom

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• With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?

  James Crawford

  Justice, Diversity, Arrogance

  James Crawford (1992). “Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

  William O. Douglas

  Teaching, Rights In America, Political Revolution

  "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

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• Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Mother, Rights, Expression

  "Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s Imprisonment a Painful Reminder of China’s Dictatorship" by Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.

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• I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Freedom, Father, War

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• Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.

  Elizabeth Van Lew

  Crush, Freedom, Jealous

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• They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

  George Carlin

  Speak, Speak The Truth, Ifs

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• Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Abuse, Censorship In Books, Denial

  Charles Bradlaugh's speech at Hall of Science (circa 1880), as quoted in Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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• After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Mean, People, Weary

  "Freedom of Speech" by Zechariah Chafee, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, (p. 366), 1920.

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• There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.

  Shappi Khorsandi

  Iran, Speech

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• It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Protect, Speech

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.28, Criss Jami

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• The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Teacher, Teaching, Risk

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.

  George Will

  Communication, Government, Dancer

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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