Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
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
My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“The popular culture has also lowered the threshold on public shaming rituals. It is not only suppressing certain speech on college campuses,… — Kim R. Holmes 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
God is a Just God, he created us with a free will so we can have, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech,… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow… — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
In the case of the Obama poster, I was just exercising my First Amendment rights - and my free speech is exercised… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“the language of free speech is used to protect hate speech, itself an attempt to deprive others of their freedom of speech,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis Brandeis Copy Share Image
University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security,… — Doug LaMalfa Copy Share Image
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“the James Madison Center for Free Speech, of which Betsy DeVos became a founding board member in 1997. The nonprofit organization’s sole… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just easier to tell a stranger than to tell the people you are close to. The freedom of speech is… — Nicole Hill Copy Share Image
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