We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.
Erich FrommTags: freedom-of-speech
Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
Weiwei AiTags: censorship freedom-of-speech
He was learning that to win a fight like this, it was not enough to know what one was fighting against. That was easy. He was fighting against the view that people could be killed for their ideas, and against the ability of any religion to place a limiting point on thought. But he needed, now, to be clear of what he was fighting for. Freedom of speech, freedom of the imagination, freedom from fear, and the beautiful, ancient art of which he was privileged to be a practitioner. Also skepticism, irreverence, doubt, satire, comedy, and unholy glee. He would never again flinch from the defense of these things. p. 285
Salman RushdieTags: freedom-of-speech
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: protest weapon weapons freedom-of-thought freedom-of-choice freedom-of-speech freedom-of-expression adam-gottbetter
You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.
Scott Howard PhillipsTags: freedom freedom-of-thought freedom-of-speech freedom-of-religion freedom-of-expression gun-rights freedom-of-the-press
Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise;
Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games;
Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free.
Tags: words dance soul grace free freedom-of-speech true question freedom-of-expression free-thought appreciate true-to-yourself words-to-inspire-you true-self true-beauty gracefully questions-in-life gracefulness
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.
Arthur KoestlerTags: government freedom-of-speech
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.Tags: censorship freedom-of-thought literary freedom-of-speech american african-american freedom-to-read
The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences.
Mark DunnTags: freedom-of-speech authoritarianism
We must relentlessly and unyieldingly protect freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.
Bryant McGillTags: peace freedom-of-speech expressing
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