Communication Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“Freedom of speech is not simply a freedom to think and say what you wish, but to speak for yourself, to speak from the…

— Ian McCallum

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government…

— Alan Dershowitz

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

— Larry Flynt

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

— Roger Ebert

“Free speech is a sign of a strong first-person plural, which enables people who disagree over fundamental things to live together in a condition…

— Roger Scruton

Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies to offensive…

— Neil Macdonald

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of…

— Jackson Katz

“With regard to freedom of speech there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it and…

— Noam Chomsky

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and…

— Benjamin Franklin

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

— Colin Powell

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or…

— Hugo Black