Absence Quote by Earl Warren

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

— Anonymous

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their…

— Benjamin Cardozo

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

— Learned Hand

In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in…

— Eliot Spitzer

“Everything we say to one another, we also say to souls absent. We continually speak to the speech that comes after our voice, forever…

— R. Scott Bakker

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

— Mason Cooley

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press…

— Charles Eliot Norton

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism…

— Alan Barth

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

— Mark Zuckerberg

Dissents speak to a future age.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly…

— Daniel Webster