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Free Speech Quotes
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions
has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the
right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones,
dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are
sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason of righteousness, temperance,
and of a judgment to come in their presence. Slavery cannot tolerate free
speech. Five years of its exercise would banish the auction block and break
every chain in the South. ..Equally clear is the right to hear. To
suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer
as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal to rob a man of his
right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money
Frederick Douglas
December 10 1860
Telling the truth has become an offense which is unprotected by free speech doctrines, which instead protect the telling of lies.
--Phyllis Chesler
We've reached a weird era where we are sacking people for stating facts.
Angelos Sofocleous after being sacked for stating a fact.
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."
Voltaire
I may not agree with what you say, but I would defend to the death your right to say it.
- attributed to Voltaire
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
― Thomas Paine
The Further a Society Drifts From the Truth, the More it will Hate Those Who Speak It
George Orwell
Universities are no longer institutions of inquiry but safe spaces where delicate flowers of diversity of race, sex, orientation, gender fluidity and everything else except diversity of thought have to be protected from exposure to any unsafe ideas. Mark Steyn
The degree of thought control, of limitations on freedom of speech and expression is without parallel in the Western world since the eighteenth century and in some cases longer than that. It seems to me it's a very dangerous situation, because it makes any kind of scholarly discussion of Islam, to say the least, dangerous
.
Professor Bernard Lewis
"If I hate what you say, I'll accuse you of hate."
-Canadian Human Rights Commissions nonstated policy.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom, is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
--H. L. Mencken
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
-- The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
--Emma May Wilcox
Freedom of Speech is the number one fight because without Freedom of Speech peaceful men will have to resort to violence.
Pamela Geller
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
--Benjamin Franklin
When you hate the truth, then truth becomes
hate.
-- David Kupelian
The Wrong Opinion is Hate
Pat Condell
Just because you don't like the truth doesn't mean the truth is racist
Zainab Harith
in Canada, truth and accuracy is no defense against charges of �hate speech.�
-Robert Spencer
One man's hate speech is another man's lone voice crying out against oppression and injustice.
-Robert Spencer
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
There are people out there without a sense of humour and they're heavily armed.
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Michael Palin former Monty Python Author about why he won't spoof Islam.
I would rather have questions that can't be answered then answers that can't be questioned
Richard Feynman
When someone says "hate speech" they mean a
statement that embarrasses, exposes, or inconveniences a leftist
Laura Loomer
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and
her arm is alway stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of
thinking, speaking, and writing.
John Adams, second president of the
United States
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what
they do not want to hear."
George Orwell
Stay Quiet and You'll Be OK
Muhammad Atta to passengers on 9/11
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind
will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
--Thomas Jefferson
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