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“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr

“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

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― Jim C. Hines

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings

“متهمون نحن بالإرهاب
أذا كتبنا عن بقايا وطن ...
مخلع ... مفكك مهترئ
أشلاؤه تناثرت أشلاء ...
عن وطن يبحث عن عنوانه ...
وأمة ليس لها سماء !!
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عن وطن ... يمنعنا ان نشتري
الجريدة
أو نسمع الأنباء ...
عن وطن ... كل العصافير به
ممنوعة دوما من الغناء ...
عن وطن ...
كتابه تعودوا أن يكتبوا
من شدة الرعب ...
على الهواء !!”
― نزار قباني

“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“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.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“When given freedom of speech, most men merely quote other men.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches