#free speech

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#believes #everybody #free #free speech #know

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#constitution #else #exercising #fact #free

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#carries #free #free speech #listen #some

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#born #culture #democracy #exist #forget

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#between #blessed #both #communication #cursed

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

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#desecration #flag #free #free speech #fundamental

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