Free Speech famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.
-- Aryeh Neier -
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
-- George Edward Woodberry -
There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas -
What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?
-- John Hagee -
You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
-- Larry Flynt -
A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?
-- Louis MacNeice -
Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.
-- Mark Thomas -
The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.
-- Mike Godwin -
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
-- Mother Jones -
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
-- Naomi Klein -
Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed
-- Rachel Martin -
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
-- Robin Quivers -
Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.
-- Russ Feingold -
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 -
There is stupid. And then there is cyberstupid.
-- Michael Grunwald -
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 -
Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.
-- Robert Glaser
