All SALMAN RUSHDIE Quotes about “Free Speech”

“Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.”
“One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.”
“People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It's like that. If you're going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.”
“It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.”
“Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.”
“Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.”

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