First Amendment Quotes
166 quotes by 121 authors
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous…
— Salman Rushdie
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I want to regain my First Amendment rights.
— Laura Schlessinger
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We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions.…
— Luke Scott
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The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
— Arlen Specter
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There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as…
— Arlen Specter
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First…
— Calvin Trillin
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
— Rebecca West
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
— Naomi Wolf
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were…
— Naomi Wolf
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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in…
— Bob Woodward
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But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's…
— Steve Wozniak
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[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never…
— Judy Blume
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I…
— Michael Moore
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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.
— Rush Limbaugh
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In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
— John Perry Barlow
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That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in…
— Ja Rule
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If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the…
— Henry Rollins
Who Wrote These First Amendment Quotes
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