“The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.” NeedsSocialJusticeLibertySpeechSocial JusticeDimensionsFreedom Of SpeechEquityHumaneContinuum Author:Alan Lomax
“You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.” TruthJusticeSecurityDangerNeededSpeechStressUtteranceSad Truth Book:Forty Years on Main Street Source: Forty Years on Main Street
“Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.” WarWould BeVoiceJusticeSpeechConscienceMereIllnessAbsenceGravesOur SocietySymptomsDissentPrevailing Book:The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren Source: The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren
“A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.” IfsShouldTruthProcessBlackJusticeCourageHonestSpeechArgumentCriticismBraveryDebateSecureDisguiseDissentVigorousSneakSinister Author:Clarence Thomas
“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
“We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.” MayLittlesImportantIndividualJusticeViewsSpeechElementsMessagesFunctionConstitutionRegardSanctionsCognitiveOften Is Author:John Marshall Harlan II
“Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.” FacesJusticeSpeechCourtDrawingSupremeSupreme CourtRuthSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticeGavel Author:Conan O'Brien
“Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii.” MenBelieveHardYoungBlackPresidentJusticeCitiesGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkSpeechClintonFocusedNew York CityPresident ObamaHawaiiChanneling Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.” GivingDoeTruthJusticeTruth IsSpeechImmortalFadesPerpetualFreedom Of SpeechUnjustSeparating Book:Enchiridion Source: Enchiridion
“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
“The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.” TruthLawIndividualSpeakEnjoyJusticeLibertySpeechConstitutionPropertySpeaks OutDeprivationIndividual RightsUnlawful Author:Potter Stewart
“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
“There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.” MenTodayHappinessJusticeDecisionLibertyMorningSubjectsJudgingSpeechIndependenceEnjoymentIndividualismUnwise Author:Daniel Webster
“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.” PeopleHeartChildrenHas BeensProblemSchoolLastsPassionJusticeForgetCommonLibertyGoneTroubleHonestTomorrowSpeechNewsOrdinaryComplexesLegsPreservesEggsPoetry IsClingingBad NewsOutspokenCadenceOpaqueFryingTruth And JusticeCommon LifeHashBuoys Author:Garrison Keillor
“[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted to put it on the Internet. The government tried to prevent him, using a law meant to stop the export of firearms and munitions. Goldman says the student argued his code was a form of speech.” GovernmentWantedSchoolFormLawJusticeAnswersCasesStudentsInternetSpeechCourtUniversityCodeDepartmentProfessorsSoftwareSantaEricFirearmsEncryptionClara Author:Laura Sydell