Freedom of speech is not only the right to say as you please, it is also the right to have what you say contested, and where it does not accord with reason – refuted, or...

Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.

I can’t curse those who don’t believe as I do. I can’t express hate or disdain for those who criticize what I hold dear. I can’t outshout, bully, or taunt them. I can’t exercise the...

Everything is temporary, almost like a passing fase, some of laughter Some of pain. What we would do, If we had the chance to explore What we had taken for Granted the very day before,...

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

(They should) create a democratic system and give freedoms, and not grant rights in just dribs and drabs, saying that maybe a woman can drive a car but she can only work within limits in...

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly ‘I don’t know.

Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening. If you can act angry and offended, especially on a college campus, you...

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

We must relentlessly and unyieldingly protect freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

what do you want for nothing?” The buyer does not waive his right to express his opinion.”[Thick Skin and Bad Reviews, Blog post, June 26, 2013]

The measure of man’s ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.

I believe 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.

This morning I woke up, how blessed I am Eyes to see, a voice to speak Words to read and love to feel? If this isn’t something to be thankful for, I’m not sure what...

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle—Gods.

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.

The primary purpose is to promote this facility and give respect to the men who give their time, and in some cases their lives, to protect our freedoms.

[Blog post, March 10, 2014]

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...

Any government’s condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what’s happening is just the opposite. The world over, non-violent resistance...

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our...

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...

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

I am a free person.I am free to dream.I am free to pursue my dreams.I am free to love.I am free to serve mankind.

You can’t expect someone to understand your journey, when they’ve hardly lived one of their own.

A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action.

[They should] create a democratic system and give freedoms, and not grant rights in just dribs and drabs, saying that maybe a woman can drive a car but she can only work within limits in...

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn’t.

Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.

If you’re not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state...

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.

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...

Your true freedom is making your own decisions.

Too many adults wish to ‘protect’ teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of your reality is not their reality.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

freedom of speech”. How is corporate control freedom of speech? And what rights did our forefathers grant corporations, anyway?

I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse. The less a person thinks and inquires regarding the why and the wherefore and the justice of things, when dragging along through...

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy … to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these...

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a...

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe… that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas– that the best test of truth...

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...

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

I know it when I see itJacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.