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“The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig...The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children.”

“People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely "watching" TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.”

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Book:Better Than Sex

Source: Better Than Sex

“We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.”

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Author:Bryan Stevenson

“Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll think of a sentence, and then realize that it will for sure get deleted. Then I won't even write it down.”

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Author:Murong Xuecun

“America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.”

Source: Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say

“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.”

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Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.”

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Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.”

Stills Speech Free Speech Freedom Of Speech

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.”

“Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.”

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Author:Garry Trudeau

“Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.”

Political Spirituality Liberty Doubt Atheism Libertarian Free Speech Heresy Freedom Of Thought Limiting Government

Author:Graham Greene

“It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.”

Ifs Ideas Impossible Communication Available Tyranny Censorship Free Speech Carpe Diem Marketplace Presentation Carpe Forums

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”

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Author:Bob Marley

“The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?”

Country Speech Bills Phones Free Speech Questions And Answers

Author:Steven Wright

“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.”

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Author:Robert Hughes

“If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.”

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Author:Jim Carroll

“I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.”

Men Book Sides Taken Internet Errors Absurd Free Speech Approved

Author:Voltaire

“The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.”

Internet Great Things Free Speech

Author:Richard Curtis

“I like something with 'vice' in it.”

Internet Vices Free Speech Like Something

Author:Ted Turner

“The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.”

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Book:The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.”

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Author:Kevin Kelly

“Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.”

Ifs Whole Seems Used Enemy Focus Materials Periods Speech Concern Institutions Notion Eras Imperfection Free Speech Civics Decadence Militarism Ghastly Erode

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

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

People Cases Speech Tough Free Speech Obnoxious

Author:Barney Frank

“We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.”

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Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”

Mean Freedom Technology Fire Speech Theatre Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Crowded Limiting Freedom Of Expression

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.”

Should Views Speech Point Of View Free Speech Censored

Book:The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

“Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.”

Political Movement Protect Speech Core Free Speech Imperatives

Book:Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.”

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Author:Herbert Hoover

“I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.”

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Author:Gene Weingarten

“A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.”

“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... 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.”

Source: Frederick Douglass: 100 Quotes on Bondage, Perseverance, and Redemption

“Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.”

Speech Prejudice Free Speech Bourgeois

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?”

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Author:Emma Goldman

“Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.”

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Book:Public philosopher: selected letters of Walter Lippmann

Source: Public philosopher: selected letters of Walter Lippmann

“We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.”

Ifs World War Lost Forget Speech Never Forget Vietnam Free Speech

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked. Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. That's very necessary today in America, with people being muzzled and irony becoming a lost art. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.”

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Author:Elton John

“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”

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Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization has definitely done is to contribute to free speech, free debate, and most importantly public understanding of, awareness of, and appreciation of the Constitution. So that's a marvelous contribution, and in a way I must say I'm jealous at how the Federalist Society has thrived at law schools.”

“A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.”

Water Dangerous Speech Tales Planes Rebellion Free Speech Geek Files Techno Bottled Water File Sharing

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I actually think it is people like myself who have been fighting for our rights to free speech and I would like the right to defend my own right to free speech, not have soldiers doing it for me. I don't think I need soldiers.”

People Thinking Needs Has Beens Fighting My Own Rights Speech Soldier Free Speech

Author:Medea Benjamin

“We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.”

Doe Military Speech Iraq Free Speech Civilians

Author:Medea Benjamin

“When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in Europe, question 9/11 in America (unless you want the Ward Churchill treatment), but the West claims they're all about free speech.”

Want Needs America Turns Honesty Speech Europe Claims West Deny Treatment Als Holocaust Free Speech Journalistic

Author:Remi Kanazi

“It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.”

Knows Persons Differences Wise Speech Free Speech Wise Person

Author:Doug Larson

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