Limiting Freedom Of Expression Quotes - Page 2

• I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

  Brad Thor

  Powerful, Writing, America

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• Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

  Johnny Weir

  Inspirational, Trust, Broken Heart

  Johnny Weir (2011). “Welcome to My World”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Freedom, Mean, Technology

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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, Freedom Of Speech, Target

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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, Freedom Of Speech

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• It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Freedom Of Speech, Constitution

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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 always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Freedom Of Speech, World, Fascists

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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, Freedom Of Speech, Magazines

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

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• We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

  Abba Kovner

  Freedom, Taken, Patriotic

  "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Lying, Law, Freedom Of Speech

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• I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

  Dave Reichert

  Goodbye, War, Believe

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• The law is agnostic about truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Law, Agnostic, Ultimate Truth

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• A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

  Kurt Huber

  Punishment, Law, Freedom Of Speech

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• I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

  Roger Ebert

  Responsibility, Speaks Out, Ideas

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Media, Expression

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• In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Irans theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

  Elliott Abrams

  Independent, Iran, Freedom Of Speech

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• More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

  Michael Anti

  Rights, Freedom Of Speech, Chinese

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