quotes about Free Speech
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Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.
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Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
-- Ayaan Hirsi AliSource : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.215, Simon and Schuster
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Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
-- George Edward WoodberrySource : George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”
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There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas -
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
-- Jimmy WalesSource : "Why Wikipedia went down at midnight". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2012.
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What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?
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You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
-- Larry FlyntSource : "Publisher Larry Flynt". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 22, 2011.
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A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?
-- Louis MacNeiceSource : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.177, Faber & Faber
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Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.
-- Mark Thomas -
The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.
-- Mike GodwinSource : "Cyber Rights". Book by Mike Godwin, 1998.
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You must stand for free speech in the streets.
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Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
-- Naomi KleinSource : Naomi Klein (2000). “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies”, Vintage Canada
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Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
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Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.
-- Russ FeingoldSource : "Feingold slams Dem super PACs" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. June 17, 2011.
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When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.
-- John S. DickersonSource : Source: www.cbsnews.com
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There is stupid. And then there is cyberstupid.
-- Michael Grunwald -
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In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.
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Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.
-- Robert Glaser