Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 18

• While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.

  Bill Hicks

  Religious, Years, Lines

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• It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Protect, Speech

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.28, Criss Jami

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• The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Teacher, Teaching, Risk

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.

  George Will

  Communication, Government, Dancer

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.

  Hugo Black

  Mean, Simple, Law

  Concurring opinion, Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147, 1959.

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• I love free speech.

  George W. Bush

  Speech, Love Freedom

  "Texan 'fair dinkum' about Howard" by Xavier La Canna, www.theage.com.au. October 23, 2003.

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• In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.

  Cat Stevens

  Mistake, Islamic, Thinking

  "Yussuf Islam, Formerly Cat Stevens, Expresses Support For Rushdie Death Sentence". The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.

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• You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

  Glenn Beck

  Rights, Common Sense, Debt

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Thinking, Expression

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.111, Open Road Media

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• I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we're seeing what's happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It's not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Country, Real, Women

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• Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Horse, Believe

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1417, Best Books on

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• There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Freedom, Speech, Wonderful

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• You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.

  Penn Jillette

  Sex, Believe, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Greatness, Russia

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

  Ann Coulter

  Light, Names, Ideas

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• The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Rights, Government, Views

  William Jennings Bryan (1914). “The Royal Art”

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• So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Writing, Today, Tomorrow

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Wendy W. Williams (2016). “My Own Words”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a time and a place for creativity.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Creativity, Preparation, Pink Panther

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• I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

  Nick Clegg

  Support, Accountability, Passionate

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• The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on. But we know what's really involved, dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that.

  Tom Lehrer

  Fun, Dirty, Book

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• I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

  Geoff Hoon

  Party, Compassion, Views

  "Geoff Hoon to stand down at general election" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

  John C. McGinley

  Art, Oxygen, Mind

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• One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.

  George Meany

  Rights, People, Democracy

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• how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

  Herbert Schiller

  Example, Democratic, Discourse

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.

  George Pataki

  War, Fighting, Atheism

  "Lenny Bruce Posthumously Pardoned" by wenn.com, December 24, 2003.

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