I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic…

Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue…

— Joan Wallach Scott

The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority…

— Richard M. Nixon

The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue…

— William O. Douglas

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

— Michael Craig-Martin

I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time), and even…

— Richard A. Falk

Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to what happens…

— Joan Wallach Scott

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's…

— Jerry A. Coyne

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right…

— Albert Einstein

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

It is no accident that the place that lends itself to creating conflicts between the dominant order of thought and people who want to…

— Ben Domenech

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

— Bob Beckel

“The corporate reform movement has co-opted progressive themes and language in the service of radical purposes. Advocating the privatization of public education is deeply…

— Diane Ravitch

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles…

— Ben Stein