#free speech

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#fire #free #free speech #means #right

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#climbed #dictator #each #every #except

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#capacity #chinese #chinese government #come #contrary

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#free speech #go #i #marks #paper

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#believe #campuses #college #college campuses #controversial

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#alone #assembly #bondage #burnt #cannot

Free speech includes the right to not speak. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#free speech #includes #right #speak #speech

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#beer #encyclopedia #every #free #free speech

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#core #free #free speech #freedom #imperative

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#being #everybody #favours #free #free speech