Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 7

• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Voice, Victim, Persons

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• I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

  Rob Delaney

  Believe, Speech

  Twitter post from Oct 8, 2011

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• Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

  Maajid Nawaz

  Giving, Doe, Speech

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• Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Tests

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 12 (1780)

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• If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Law, People, Want

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Freedom, Writing, America

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.110, Penguin

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• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Library, Censorship

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

  Pamela Geller

  Freedom, Savages, Speech

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• Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Men, Giving, Mind

  Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.11, Chicago Review Press

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• Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Speech, Association, Presses

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

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• Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

  Bob Dylan

  Swamps, Speech, Might

  Song: Motorpsycho Nightmare, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

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• Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stuff, Like You, Free Speech

  "Why defend freedom of icky speech?" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, People, Speak

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• Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Government, Differences, Challenges

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.

  Roxane Gay

  Ideas, Lines, Firsts

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• Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Mean, Men

  Letter to Edward Carrington, 16 Jan. 1787

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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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• The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

  George Soros

  Country, Lying, Rights

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• I would never want to pass a law limiting freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean we have to condone statements that undermine basic national unity and respect. Imagine being asked to defend a country where some citizens say the man in the White House isn't their president. Or a major presidential contender accuses the commander in chief of not even being a U.S. citizen. Those kinds of statements erode trust in our democracy, and it's up to both parties to publicly reject them. We have to restore confidence that we are a nation that loves and believes in itself.

  Sebastian Junger

  Country, Party, Believe

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Writing

  "Timeline: a history of free speech" by David Smith, Luc Torres, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2006.

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• The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.

  Michael Moore

  Strong, Freedom, Clothes

  Michael Moore (2004). “Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!”

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• Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mean, Government, Views

  "Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Violence, Excuse, Should

  "Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.

  Stanley Forman Reed

  Utterance, May, Constitution

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• The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

  Alan Lomax

  Justice, Liberty, Dimensions

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