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#1

“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend their life without being offended. Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if you open it and read it, you don't have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, or sold, or bought, or read.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: freedom-of-speech, reading, writing

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#2

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

tags: dissent, fear, freedom-of-speech, truth, truth-telling

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#3

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
― Euripides, The Phoenician Women

tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, speaking-out

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#4

“Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.”
― Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book

tags: free-speech

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#5

“Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: freedom-of-speech, inspirational

196 likes

#6

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
― John Milton , Areopagitica

tags: argument, conscience, freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty

327 likes

#7

“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

tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty

304 likes

#8

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”
― Margaret A. Edwards

tags: censor, censoring, censors, censorship, freedom-of-choice, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-express, love, love-story, lover, lovers, lovers-fictional, minors-rights, rite-of-passage, rites-of-passage, teen, teen-fantasy, teen-fiction, teenage-love, teenagers, teenagers-and-parents, teens, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-readers, young-adult-romance, young-adult-urban-fantasy, young-love, young-lovers

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#9

“متهمون نحن بالإرهاب
أذا كتبنا عن بقايا وطن ...
مخلع ... مفكك مهترئ
أشلاؤه تناثرت أشلاء ...
عن وطن يبحث عن عنوانه ...
وأمة ليس لها سماء !!
***
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

tags: freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-the-press, freedom-of-thought, media, terrorism

117 likes

#10

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty

2245 likes

#11

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression

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#12

“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, baron-d-holbach, condorcet, d-alembert, d-holbach, deism, denis-diderot, diderot, jean-le-rond-d-alembert, marquis-de-condorcet, paul-henri-d-holbach, platonic, platonic-christianity, protestant

491 likes

#13

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech

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#14

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: censorship, dissent, freedom-of-speech, opposition, politics, repression

727 likes

#15

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: dissent, freedom-of-speech, truth-telling

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#16

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

[Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
― Jim C. Hines

tags: freedom-of-speech, stupidity

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#17

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire

1770 likes

#18

“Hypocrites get offended by the truth.”
― Jess C. Scott, Bad Romance: Seven Deadly Sins Anthology

tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, honest, honesty, hypocrite, hypocrites, liars, straightforwardness, truth

355 likes

#19

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
― James Madison

tags: authority, constitution, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, politics

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#20

“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: freedom-of-speech, humor

430 likes

#21

“To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi, Letters from Burma

tags: democracy, freedom, freedom-of-speech, politics

103 likes

#22

“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: freedom-of-speech, united-states

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#23

“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."

[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Inaugural Speeches and Messages of Thomas Jefferson, Esq.: Late President of the United States: Together with the Inaugural Speech of James Madison, Esq. ...

tags: founding-fathers, freedom-of-speech, thomas-jefferson

55 likes

#24

“Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: abuse, dictatorship, force, freedom, freedom-of-speech, miranda-rights, miranda-warning, pressure, rights, silence, speech, warning

68 likes

#25

“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."

[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]”
― William O. Douglas

tags: democracy, first-amendment, freedom, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, liberty

80 likes

#26

“‎"Freedom is fundamentally the possibility of standig on a street corner and shouting “There is no freedom here!”
― Yoani Sánchez

tags: freedom-of-speech, inspirational

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#27

“Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.”
― Dinesh D'Souza, What's So Great About Christianity

tags: freedom-of-religion, freedom-of-speech

32 likes

#28

“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."

[Beauharnais v.Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (1952) (dissenting)]”
― William O. Douglas

tags: censorship, free-speech, freedom-of-speech, liberty, orthodoxy, political

46 likes

#29

“Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.”
― Daniel Delgado F

tags: free-will, freedom, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, inspirational-quotes, philosophical, philosophy

21 likes

#30

“Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: censorship, evil, first-amendment, freedom, freedom-of-speech, hubris, religion

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