Free Speech Quotes

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass

Free, Wrong, Rights

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Thomas Sowell

Real, Free, Themselves

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.
Herbert Hoover

Power, Free, Speech

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
Jack Kevorkian

Human, Free, Big

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.
Donna Shalala

Education, America, Free

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Today, May, Same

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Hugo Black

Change, Enemy, Friend

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Salman Rushdie

Life, Game, Free

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

Women, Men, Fear

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Together, Free, Speech

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman

Fire, Free, Means

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Anna Quindlen

Why, Free, Often

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

Freedom, Society, Political

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
Frank Serpico

Today, Free, Speak

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
Larry Flynt

Free, Start, Until

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
Charles Bradlaugh

Free, Denial, Speech

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
Charles Bradlaugh

Truth, Free, Possible

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
Timothy Garton Ash

Respect, Blessed, Fight

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
Larry Flynt

Forget, Democracy, Free

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
Hugo Black

Freedom, Government, Free

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.
John Doolittle

Time, Free, American

You must stand for free speech in the streets.
Mary Harris Jones

Free, Stand, Speech

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.
Drew Carey

Happen, Free, Sometimes

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Neal Boortz

Free, Speech, Needs

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
Jimmy Wales

Person, Give, Goal

Free speech includes the right to not speak.
Jimmy Wales

Free, Speak, Speech

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.
Jeff Dunham

True, Wife, Job

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
Matthew Simpson

Free, Whole, Nation

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun

Free, Everybody, Speech

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
Christopher Dodd

Free, Public, Rights

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