The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me?- No longer asks he...
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a sourc...
If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.
Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defea
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be hooked up to a lie detector and asked this question: Have you read a book fro...
Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.
I want to be part of the happiness team - let's create the happiness team - from love, not greed, love of life & our planet, true & free.
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
If there's no sense of self, there's no sense of culture. If there's no sense of wisdom, there's no sense of progress. If there's no sense of love, there's no sense of peace. If there's no sense of pe...
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, LIES WILL PUT YOU INTO PRISON
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, wh...
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire w...
Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in.
The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or...
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