In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
You have the right to free speech as an American - you have no right to use YouTube to do it. And… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Liberals shouldn't cede the responsibility to defend free speech on college campuses to conservatives. After all, without free speech, what's liberalism about? — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of all the threats to free speech in history, the one the media give the most credibility to without question is the… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The essential contradiction at the heart of America's problems: if we were a democracy and if we truly enjoyed free speech, we… — Douglas Valentine Copy Share Image
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Article 19 1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference. 2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of… — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Copy Share Image
Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment… — Stanley Forman Reed Copy Share Image
If I had been the drummer for the Grassroots, it probably wouldn't have cut me to the core when I heard John… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Everything has become very corporate and very careful. Before we had a real democracy going and there were a lot of freedoms… — Don McLean 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
By revoking the ability for social media providers to be considered publishers, we ensure that they can no longer manipulate social media… — George Santos Copy Share Image
I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes… — Elaine Welteroth Copy Share Image
“Free speech is a sign of a strong first-person plural, which enables people who disagree over fundamental things to live together in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Letting our domestic sensitivities dictate our debate on China allows the CCP to avoid criticism where it richly deserves it, and it… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence,… — Thomas Emerson Copy Share Image
A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The FBI wanted us to introduce the 1994 Digital Telephony bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Balanced' is a code for 'denied': a right to free speech that must be 'balanced' against so exhaustive a list of other… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly,… — Bobby Ray Inman Copy Share Image
The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech - that there… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
“The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
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