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• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Leadership, Running, Zuckerberg

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• Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed

  Rachel Martin

  Speech, Bangladesh

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

  Mark Helprin

  Law, Cities, Promise

  "Always carry a bin bag" by Jemima Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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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.

  T.R. Reid

  Democracy, Politician, Supreme Court

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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. Dickerson

  People, Trying

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Everything has become very corporate and very careful. Before we had a real democracy going and there were a lot of freedoms and now there's this terrorism thing that everybody's focused on, which is really a boondoggle in my opinion. It's just an excuse to clamp down on people's free speech. And corporations intimidate people and everybody's gotten intimidated and that's really what it is, and they just keep going along. It's almost like - a little bit like that Charlie Chaplin movie, Modern Times, or 1984, Orwell

  Don McLean

  Real, People, Democracy

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• If you have an internet service provider that's capable of slowing down other sites, or putting other sites out of business, or favoring their own friends and affiliates and customers who can pay for fast lanes, that's a horrible infringement on free speech. It's censorship by media monopolies. It's tragic: here we have a technology, the internet, that's capable really of being the town square of democracy, paved with broadband bricks, and we are letting it be taken over by a few gatekeepers. This is a first amendment issue; it's free speech versus corporate censorship.

  Michael Copps

  Taken, Technology, Democracy

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space of Democracy had been selected as one of the "common readers" for the university's 1,050 entering freshmen. On October 6, William Merwin, the president of Florida Gulf Coast, made the decision to "postpone" the convocation. He cited negative statements I had made in print about President Bush. If our colleges and universities are no longer the champions and protectors of free speech, then no voice in this country is safe.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, Book, College

  Source: progressive.org

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• I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Party, Technology

  "Jesse Ventura hiding from drones" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Leadership, Wisdom, Believe

  "16-Year-Old Activist Malala Yousafzai Steals The Show At NYC Awards Show" by Jocelyn Noveck, www.businessinsider.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Family, Leadership, Wisdom

  "MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Offers Televised Apology for Romney Segment" by Erik Hayden, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 04, 2014.

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• We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

  Grover Norquist

  Money, Father, Government

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• Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.

  Robert Wright

  Jesus, Party, Reality

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• Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

  Cecily McMillan

  Money, Wall, Lying

  "Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan Gets 3 Months in Prison: A Rare Interview". Interview with Ashley Codianni, mashable.com. May 19, 2014.

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• There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.

  Emma Sulkowicz

  Eye, Class, Justice

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• [Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.

  Jonathan Capehart

  Family, Mom, Mother

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• We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

  Joshua Wong

  Leadership, Justice, Community

  "Hong Kong protesters promise to keep up occupation" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2014.

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• The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.

  Antonin Scalia

  Law, Justice, People

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• The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Freedom, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

  Matt Welch

  Reform, Campaigns, Magazines

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• Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

  Winston Churchill

  Freedom Of Speech, Foolish, Certain

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Opportunity, Order, Rights

  "De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353, 365". Judicial opinion, 1937.

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• The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.

  Adam Smith

  Believe, Men, Wisdom And Experience

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.336, Courier Corporation

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• Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

  Kevin Kelly

  Order, Organization, Growth

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• Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Different, Care

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 21, 2015.

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