America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer…

Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.

— Amy Poehler

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations…

— Woodrow Wilson

“Liberty has never come from the government,” Wilson had told his audience. “Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history…

— Gerard Helferich

Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called prophets, but…

— Noam Chomsky

During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us,…

— Pat Buchanan

[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.

— William J. Duiker

“Despots, it turns out, are learning to practice what journalist Rebecca MacKinnon calls “networked authoritarianism”—the use of the Internet to consolidate power. Rather than…

— Anonymous

My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian…

— Mona Eltahawy

The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and…

— Noam Chomsky

Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by…

— Noam Chomsky

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

— Glenn Greenwald

Dissidents are not imprisoned as in the domains of the Kremlin, in the old days. They do not have their brains blown out by…

— Noam Chomsky

Luckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I was not.…

— Amira Hass

An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European…

— Michel Foucault

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom