I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
See, believe it or not, I actually support complete free speech not because I don't care about the welfare of the American… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“From gun shows, where they openly promote their product by imploring customers to buy “while you still can,” to homegrown militias who… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
To some, incredibly, Russia has become a human rights leader. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, has succeeded in his asylum application in… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
“If we conceive of free speech as promoting the search for truth—as the metaphor of “the marketplace of ideas” suggests—we should be… — Thomas Healy Copy Share Image
For Americans, with the advent of the U.S. invention of the Internet, free speech is not just open dissemination of ideas and… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term 'anti-American' is usually used by the American establishment to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away… — Brad Templeton Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the… — Joe Randazzo Copy Share Image
We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do… — Anika Noni Rose Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Pastor Ted and other evangelical pastors I hear about in the media seem to perceive just about everything to be a threat… — Hemant Mehta Copy Share Image
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Part of the human experience is to confront temptation. No one escapes. It is omnipresent. It is both externally driven and internally… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
“The salesman told Anna that it was pointless to try to rip off his customers, because of everything a Sichuanese person must… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
“When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, and inaugurated the biggest crisis since the 1930s, there were no real alternatives to… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“There you see two typical members of the class which has down-trodden the poor for centuries. Idlers! Non-producers! Look at the tall… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“At the heart of every flourishing democracy is the unyielding commitment to free speech. It is the beacon that illuminates the path… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property...… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
“A few weeks later, in the middle of a cold December night, the pair, along with 247 other radicals, were herded onto… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, and inaugurated the biggest crisis since the 1930s, there were no real alternatives to… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
![“This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property... Some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcement than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil…” quote by Butch Otter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4b/butch-otter-62570_abiding_this-anti-terrorism-bill-is-a-violation_936812.jpg)
![“After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b93/nat-hentoff-1615_association_after-bill-shawn-was-fired-i-was-going-t_2185565.jpg)