#press

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#cases #equal #equal rights #law #majority

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#am #continuing #expressing #feel #french

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#deserving #draft #employing #exposing #expression

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#expression #french #i #i am #writer

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#mother #mother tongue #syllables #those #tongue

I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#always #attention #best #dealing #find

I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#going #hoping #i #i can #pressure

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom

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

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically. ↗

— Don Johnson

#artistically #consider #could #express #gifts