Power Or Force Quotes

“We are speaking from our own lived experiences and quoting from our pain, tears, scars, and grief. You are disrespecting us, undermining us, and gaslighting us, trying to rewrite our history by quoting an online satire written by a morally bankrupt person who distorts our reality, because their masters were the ones profiting from our loss.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Why is it still called freedom of speech when people are threatened, violated, harassed, killed, or punished for speaking their mind and telling the truth?

How can it be considered free speech when people have paid for it with their lives, careers, dignity, social media accounts, visas, passports, jobs, and even their ID cards?
When you speak the truth, you are targeted, sanctioned, denied or stripped of a visa, deported, flagged on social media, banned, suppressed, cancelled, or fired.
How can it be called freedom of speech if I am only allowed to repeat the script they give me? If I must choose my words from their approved list?

I am allowed to say only the good things about them, but I cannot speak about the wrong things they do. They are free to say what they want, but I am not free to say what I want, I can only say what they want. How, then, can this be called freedom of speech? Is it freedom or is it controlled, policed speech?”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Across the world, every country has one thing in common, and that is bad politicians and government. In many places, citizens constantly complain about them, viewing politicians as part of the problem instead of the solution. Governments sometimes appear complicit in making people’s lives more difficult. I often ask myself why those in power fight so hard against progress, empowerment, and the development of their own people. Why would any government oppress the very citizens it is meant to serve?”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos