First Amendment Quotes

166 quotes by 121 authors

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
I want to regain my First Amendment rights. — Laura Schlessinger
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
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. — Arlen Specter
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
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
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. — Rebecca West
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. — Elwyn Brooks White
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
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
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
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
[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
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin
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
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
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government. — Rush Limbaugh
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. — John Perry Barlow
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
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

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