Bloody Quote by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization…

— Samuel Alito

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

— Anthony Kennedy

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

— William O. Douglas

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

— Anonymous

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

— Alan Dershowitz

At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."

— Sam Levenson

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

— J. Edgar Hoover

“Suppression is a form of social and intellectual terrorism which results in oppression.”

— Jackson Taviri

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

— Anonymous

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship,…

— Kate Adie