The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The… — Sylvia Ostry Copy Share Image
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty. — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty. — Shami Chakrabarti Copy Share Image
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly… — Lloyd Doggett Copy Share Image
...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent. — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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