“God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become… — Elsa Tamez Copy Share Image
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When… — Salman Rushdie 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
Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.'… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses...… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech, the right to dissent, the right to protest, that is what America is about. And politically every leader in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...("… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent. — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action. — Jim Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
