I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate - especially (especially!) within Muslim communities. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ideas - freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That's why I became a… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
It's impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level. — David Draiman Copy Share Image
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's important to acknowledge the danger when we provide an academic venue for racism. It's interesting to hear people push the, quote,… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
College students overwhelmingly support free speech in the abstract, but when it comes to the real world, they are accepting of restrictions… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“A fascist is a student who, seeing the representatives of a chemical industry recruiting on campus, cries, "Let's chase the bastard off!… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That… — Frank Hague Copy Share Image
“I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I… — Paul Horner Copy Share Image
“We must insist that free oratory is only the beginning of free speech; it is not the end, but a means to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law. Nothing… — Robert G Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate… — Dave Rodgers Copy Share Image
If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
“The volunteers merely dropped in for a summer, then went home to question America. Some would spearhead the events that defined the… — Bruce Watson Copy Share Image
If you have ever read my columns, you know how important free speech is to me... and how important it should be… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech. — Matt Welch Copy Share Image
Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position. — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
That Shameful Moment When You Are Yelling At Someone And You Messed Up A Word... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors. — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Free speech works so much better when you do not have to worry about a toxic employer that may fire you for… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
