“A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.” LawBlackJusticeBreakRightsTheorySpeechAbuseFree SpeechFree SocietyThrottle Author:Clarence Thomas
“Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.” MayBeliefJusticeGroupsInternetCircumstancesPrivacyAssociationFree SpeechIndispensableDissidents Author:John Marshall Harlan II
“Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!” PeopleRunningGuyPoliticsPresidentCommunityLeadershipJusticeComedyPolicyOrdinaryEthicsConstitutionMarkMadHuman RightsSocial MediaTerrorismComplainingIdeologyPotPresident ObamaFree SpeechFoundersSpyDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceNsaKettlesZuckerberg Author:Jimmy Fallon
“If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you because you're African American,' I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don't smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don't really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.” IfsWantLooksI CanHandsRealityFacesGamesJusticeLike YouEthicsIdeologyHeyAfrican AmericanShakesOwnersRacistWant MeFree SpeechCivilityRespect MeI Don't Like You Author:Magic Johnson
“I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know - being one who has advocated violence and gun violence? The only way I could do it was through a song that spoke from the heart.” KnowsWayHeartWisdomRealitySongPoliticsSpeakCommunityLeadershipJusticeHistoryViolenceGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyEthicsGunSickStrategyTiredUnityHuman RightsIndividualitySocial MediaIdeologySpokesFree SpeechCivilityDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceGun ViolenceSo Sick Author:Snoop Dogg
“Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.” TryingSeemsTodayPoliticalPoliticsJusticePartyDemocracyIssuesRightsPolicyRepublicanEqualEthicsVoteStrategyDemocratIdeologyGuaranteesVotingFree SpeechPolitical PartiesEqual RightsPartisansRight To VotePartisanship Author:Donna Brazile
“A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.” PeopleLongPoliticsLeadershipJusticeIssuesRightsPolicyGayEqualEthicsSilentHuman RightsCivil RightsIdeologyFree SpeechLong AgoEqual RightsGay MarriageModernityCivil Rights MovementSpeaking Out Author:Joe Biden
“America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word 'f__k'. And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say 'f__k'? It's like when they bleeped 'molly' at the VMAs. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out 'molly'?” ThinkingLooksShowsWisdomBodyRealityAmericaGuyPoliticsCommunityLeadershipJusticeDemocracyComedyGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyRight NowEthicsCookingStrategyHuman RightsIndividualitySocial MediaIdeologyCooksFree SpeechCivilityAcidPartisanship Author:Miley Cyrus
“It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.” SpeakCommunityLeadershipJusticeEthicsSilentInjusticeHuman RightsIndividualityIdeologyFree SpeechComplacencyDisobedienceCivil Disobedience Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.” WantYearsRealityMightValuesPoliticsIndividualSoundCommunityJusticeViolencePolicyNewsEthicsHuman RightsHearingTerrorismIdeologyTapeFree SpeechThrillCivilityAudioGunshots Author:Rachel Maddow
“I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.” ThinkingRealityPoliticsLeadershipJusticePartyTechnologyDemocracyHuman NaturePolicyEthicsDeserveStrategyPrisonHuman RightsIndividualitySocial MediaIdeologyTeaFree SpeechPenaltiesDeath PenaltyDisobedienceTea PartyInappropriateCivil DisobedienceThird PartiesSnowden Author:Rand Paul
“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.” MayWarRealityAmericaFatherPoliticsProcessCommunityJusticeHistoryTechnologyDemocracyViolenceGenerationsPolicyCitizensBattleEqualEthicsConstitutionHuman RightsTerrorismDuesArguingTrialsCommitIdeologyEngagedFree SpeechPenaltiesMaximumEqual RightsDeath PenaltyBattlefieldsTreasonDespicableConvictsDue Process Author:Rand Paul
“You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?” KnowsShouldSaidHelpingWisdomGovernmentGirlFatherSpeakWaitingVoiceCommunityLeadershipJusticeEducationHistoryRightsViolenceEqualEthicsEncouragementArmyRaisesStrategyHuman RightsIndividualityTerrorismIdeologySpokesFree SpeechShould IWomens RightsEqual RightsCivilityDisobedienceSpeaks OutCivil Disobedience Author:Malala Yousafzai
“I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.” GivingBelieveWisdomRealityI BelieveCommunityLeadershipJusticeHistoryViolenceGenerationsHuman NatureGunIndividualityIdeologyPensFree SpeechCivilityDisobedienceCivil Disobedience Author:Malala Yousafzai
“Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.” ShouldChildrenWisdomPoliticsLeadershipJusticeFamilyClassGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyEthicsAdultsHuman RightsSocial MediaTreatedIdeologyPrivacyFree SpeechConsentCivilityPublic Life Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.” ReasonEyeCommunityJusticeClassPolicyEqualEthicsPoliceHuman RightsCriminalsTreatedInnocentGuiltyIdeologySurvivorFree SpeechProvenEqual RightsDisobedienceCivil DisobediencePartisanshipGuilty Until Proven Innocent Author:Emma Sulkowicz
“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.” RealityRememberFacesMotherPoliticsNamesForceNationsBlackCommunityJusticeFamilyHistoryViolenceGenerationsTearsMomCircumstancesEqualEthicsHuman RightsIdeologyAfrican AmericanTeenagerBrownFree SpeechEqual RightsQuestionableUnarmed Author:Jonathan Capehart
“We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.” WantPoliticsCommunityLeadershipJusticeDemocracyViolenceGenerationsPolicyRevolutionEqualStrategyUnityHuman RightsIndividualitySeekingIdeologyForeign PolicyFree SpeechEqual RightsDisobedienceCivil Disobedience Author:Joshua Wong
“The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.” PeopleLawJusticeVirtueSpeechDemocraticGrantedFree SpeechTook For Granted Author:Antonin Scalia
“The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.” NeedsPoliticalOrderOpportunityIndividualForceCommunityJusticeGreaterRightsViolenceSpeechImportanceConstitutionInstitutionsPressesPreservesDiscussionFree SpeechImperativesAssemblyIndividual RightsFree PressConstitutional RightsIncitementSafeguarding Author:Charles Evans Hughes
“No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.” MayEvilOpportunityJusticeClearDangerSpeechDiscussionJustifyFree SpeechFreedom Of SpeechEmergenciesRepressionIncidence Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.” MeanReasonWholeProblemNationsSocialJusticeTeachLimitsSpeechSolutionsRelationDiscussionWelfareRelyFree SpeechIndispensableAdjustmentSolution To A ProblemRely UponSocial WelfareSocial Relations Author:Stanley Forman Reed
“I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” WantMayStatesAsksNationsJusticeSinCrimeInternetMinistersFree SpeechBedroomAsking For Forgiveness Author:Pierre Trudeau
“The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.” ShouldJusticePositionInternetCompetitionIncludingBarsSellingDepartmentFree SpeechAuctionsMergersFccTelecommunicationsMonopolizing Author:Reed Hundt
“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.” WorldCountryHomeRealityFatherPoliticsJusticeDemocracyLandPolicyHighestEthicsConstitutionBraveRateFree SpeechIncarcerationLand Of The Free Author:Bryan Stevenson