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300a22f I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. evelyn-beatrice-hall misattributed-to-voltaire freedom-of-speech freedom-of-thought S.G. Tallentyre
4b8adef "1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They're also entitled to express them online. 2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don't like. 3. Sometimes those opinions won't be very nice. 4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes. 5. However, if your solution to this "problem" is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are a bigger asshole. 6. You may also be twelve. 7. You are not responsible for anyone else's actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own. 8. So leave them alone and go about your own life." criticism freedom-of-opinion reviewers reviewing opinions freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech reviews bullying readers censorship John Scalzi
16454f6 This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. speaking-out freedom-of-speech Euripides
0c4fa30 "If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them." challenged-books freedom-of-speech censorship Stephen King
38f8d36 "The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible." [ criticism freedom-of-opinion sacrosanct-ideas immunity freedom-of-speech liberty freedom-of-thought Salman Rushdie
1db362e "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, where reason is left free to combat it." " freedom-of-speech thomas-jefferson Thomas Jefferson
f8f98c3 The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all. freedom-of-expression freedom-of-choice freedom-of-speech weapon freedom-of-thought weapons protest Martin Luther King Jr.
4036df0 Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. freedom inspirational beauty-in-literature freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech freedom-of-thought Frederick Douglass
3ed94e8 The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed. freedom-of-speech political-correctness G.K. Chesterton
3bb3d99 "Two things form the bedrock of any open society -- freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country." [ politics open-society rule-of-law freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech Salman Rushdie
a7b288b The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences. freedom-of-speech Mark Dunn
792502c Danny would have thought it comical if it had come from any other source, on any other day, in any other country. But Curtis had come to the table with something they'd never expected, something they would have thought outmoded and outlived in the modern age: a kind of fundamental righteousness that only the fundamental possessed. Unfettered by doubt, it achieved the appearance of moral intelligence and a resolute consciousness. The terrible thing was how small it made you feel, how weaponless. How could you fight righteous rage if the only arms you bore were logic and sanity? religious-fundamentalism freedom-of-speech Dennis Lehane
090a7bd "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 herself: "Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it livable? What's going on in the political prisons?" It's only natural! When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. Showing your hair or putting on makeup logically became acts of rebellion." -- rebellion political freedom freedom-of-speech freedom-of-thought Marjane Satrapi
43854a2 "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 from start to finish since high school?" or "Did you even read a book from start to finish in high school?" If the truthful answer is "no," then the candidate should be told politely that he cannot get on the school committee and blow off his big bazoo about how books make children crazy. Whenever ideas are squashed in this country, literate lovers of the American experiment write careful and intricate explanations of why all ideas must be allowed to live. It is time for them to realize that they are attempting to explain America at its bravest and most optimistic to orangutans. From now on, I intend to limit my discourse with dimwitted Savonarolas to this advice: "Have somebody read the First Amendment to the United States Constitution out loud to you, you God damned fool!" Well--the American Civil Liberties Union or somebody like that will come to the scene of trouble, as they always do. They will explain what is in the Constitution, and to whom it applies. They will win. And there will be millions who are bewildered and heartbroken by the legal victory, who think some things should never be said--especially about religion. They are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hi ho." book-banning literature books united-states-of-america first-amendment freedom-of-speech constitution censorship Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
b3e295e We are all free to be assholes, but we are not free to do so without consequence. freedom-of-speech free-speech Roxane Gay
bde88ee What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity? freedom-of-speech hedonism insanity Karen Essex
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