Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 14

• But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, People, Principles

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• Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.

  Edward Said

  Determination, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military ouster of Egypt's unpopular, but elected Islamist president in 2013, we saw political opponents being arrested by the thousands, really. Then we saw a popular comedian go off the air out of fear of retribution.

  Leila Fadel

  Military, Rights, Air

  "Egypt Expands Crackdown On Freedom Of Expression, Advocates Say". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.

  Gloria Steinem

  Rights, Culture, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Party, Democracy, Hungary

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

  Tim Robbins

  America, Cost, Use

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• I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

  Kirk Cameron

  Believe, Hands, America

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• Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something that white people do. I think governments, this is a white thing.

  David Duke

  Thinking, Government, White

  Source: radio.foxnews.com

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• Freedom of speech does not mean that you have to agree with everything that a comedian says, but that comedian should have the freedom to be able to try to make that funny. It's the attempt that I'm trying to defend so hard, no necessarily the execution.

  Brad Williams

  Mean, Should Have, Comedian

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  No Friends, Speech, Putin

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Truth affirms freedom of speech. Putin is no friend of reli - freedom of speech. Putin is an enemy of freedom of religion. The U.S. celebrates freedom of religion. Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press. Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places or ideas that are in conflict.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Ideas, People, Political

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Believe, Gun, Men

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• I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

  Julie Delpy

  School, Thinking, Fit

  "Julie Delpy’s Entropic Vacation". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.

  Laura Sydell

  Law, Firsts, First Amendment

  "Apple's First Amendment Argument". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 26, 2016.

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• When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot of people say we're a conservative country, that people are conservative. And my response to that is, yes, that's true, and you know what the people want to conserve most? The progressive traditions of our country - freedom of speech, and of the press and of assembly. Freedom to dissent. The freedom to practice your own religion or not practice religion as you see fit. Yes, we're conservative! We want to conserve those.

  Tom Harkin

  Country, People, Conservative

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think the president, very simply, has never read a copy of the Constitution. I think that that's true. He's just never bothered to read the Constitution, and he just has no understanding and appreciation of the First Amendment's protections for freedom of speech.

  John Kiriakou

  Appreciation, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The big issue is this incremental whittling away of our constitutional rights, our most important constitutional rights, including freedom of speech. This is something that we really have to put our foot down on, and we have to fight it at every step of the way.

  John Kiriakou

  Fighting, Important

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As an American, we have a right to vote and to our freedom of speech, and to voice our political views, and so I actually take conversations on the other side of the aisle not necessarily as a challenge but as an opportunity to continue the conversation, which is I think what we all value most about America.

  Katie Walsh

  Opportunity, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

  Francis Bacon

  Fall, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

  William Ellery Channing

  Country, Peace, War

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• No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

  Benjamin Constant

  Law, Being Free, Influence

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• We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation in which the dissident in exile is seen as a bold figure, and those who choose to work with restrictions on their freedom are considered patsies for repressive governments. Let's not forget that most writers in history have lived under nondemocratic regimes: Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Goethe didn't actually enjoy constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech.

  Pankaj Mishra

  War, Rights, Government

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Freedom, Voice, Pay

  Speech in New York City, August 28, 1952.

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• How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Race, Ideas

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• Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

  Maria Conchita Alonso

  Country, Mirrors, Rights

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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