#free speech

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#applaud #audience #butter #cattle #diseased

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#free #free speech #hearer #rights #speaker

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#blacks #christians #comedy #comic #elderly

As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate. ↗

— Candy Crowley

#amazed #awe #country #day #debate

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

— Abbie Hoffman

#fire #free #free speech #means #right

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#free speech #go #i #marks #paper

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#every #free #free speech #right #speech

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. ↗

— Charles Bradlaugh

#better #denial #free #free speech #speech

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