Action Quote by Thomas Carlyle

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

— Peter Salovey

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

— Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

— Anonymous

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

— Jerry Brown

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

— Anthony Kennedy

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is necessary for those who are sensitive to remain silent. However, rather than remaining silent, it is much better if it is in…

— Dada Bhagwan

“In every generation there have been matters which the general public is irresistibly tempted to ignore, partly through actual lack of information, but far…

— G. G. Coulton

“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh…

— William Lloyd Garrison

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

— Barney Frank

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

— Mason Cooley