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...