Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent. — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict. — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
“Love permits and even respects dissent: Authoritarianism does not. Everybody should learn the difference.” — Jeri Massi Copy Share Image
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well! — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“If the party was so great and benevolent, why should it be so frightened of dissent or free thinking? Yet, they punished… — Rudi Wobbe Copy Share Image
The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Before a new authority can be set up in the place of one that exists, there is an interval when the right… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“The value of free speech lies not just in the protection of popular opinions but in the shelter it provides for dissenting… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We should start calling this law SCOTUScare ... [T]his Court's two decisions on the Act will surely be remembered through the years… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
As the American Muslim community gets a little bit freer in terms of not being under the thumb of that kind of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
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