Free speech Quotes · Page 20

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

— Mike Godwin

We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just…

— George H. W. Bush

Think Before You Speak, Words Have Power, People Are Pretty Careless With The Words They Choose. Especially When Speaking. Your Words Can…

— Pacifiersucker

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

— Barack Obama

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress…

— Charles Bradlaugh

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

— Neal Boortz

The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.

— Patrick Leahy

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

— Richard Curtis

Under President Obama, the IRS formed a committee to aggressively go after churches and other religious organizations using the Johnson Amendment of…

— Steve Scalise

“The general valorization of reason and evidence, scrutiny of social arrangements, open discourse and a reasonable scepticism have all been very healthy…

— Stephen Pinker

Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could…

— Garry Trudeau

Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that…

— Maajid Nawaz

“It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between libre , meaning that something's unconstrained, and gratuit , meaning…

— Emma Donoghue

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the…

— Pierre Trudeau

“Dissent from liberal orthodoxy is cast as racism, misogyny, bigotry, phobia, and, as we’ve seen, even violence. If you criticize the lack…

— Kirsten Powers

I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not…

— Donna Shalala

“It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say…

— China Miéville

I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate - especially (especially!) within Muslim communities.

— Mehdi Hasan

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the…

— Abe Fortas

Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

In terms of activism, the Trump-era transformation of news into entertainment has had a deep effect on the way that collegiate politics…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is a difference in 'free speech' and 'cheap talk.' The smallest size is to criticize.

— Anonymous

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it…

— Hugo Black