Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 6

• So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Fighting, Winning

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• In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.

  John Paul Stevens

  Marijuana, Expression, Issues

  Deborah Morse and the Juneau School Board, et al., Petitioners v. Joseph Frederick, 551 U.S. 393, 2007.

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• When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Freedom, Believe, Fighting

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• The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

  William Hague

  Powerful, Rights, Bills

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• Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

  Larry Craig

  Cutting, Law, United States

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• We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

  Epictetus

  Knives, Blunt, Should

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.

  Luke Scott

  Running, Country, Integrity

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• A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Nice, Target, Election

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• We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Freedom, Weather, Speech

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, United States, Protected

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• I mean, there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, World, Way

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

  John Mortimer

  Business, Sound, Finance

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• Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  Frank Murphy

  Double Standard, Action, Freedom Of Religion

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• My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Airports, Hotel Lobby, Desire

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.189, Vintage

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• We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

  Boyle Roche

  Silence, Speech, Should

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• Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Freedom, Battle, Speech

  "Die Russische Revolution". Book by Paul Froelich, 1940.

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• Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

  Naomi Klein

  Cacophony, Free Speech, Risen

  Naomi Klein (2000). “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies”, Vintage Canada

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• I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

  Stockwell Day

  Freedom, Believe, Speech

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. May 3, 2005.

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• The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Communication, Air, Law

  "International News Service v. Associated Press". Dissenting opinion, 1918.

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• And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

  David Icke

  People, Magazines, Demand

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

  William O. Douglas

  Expression, Firsts, Morality

  "Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 21, 1966.

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• Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

  Walter Cronkite

  Democracy, Important, Censorship

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• Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Age, Trials

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

  Viola Spolin

  Theatre, Watches, Limiting Freedom Of Expression

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• Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.

  Staffan de Mistura

  Mean, Offending, Culture Religion

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