If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.
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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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Hypocrites get offended by the truth.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
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You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.
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Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
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A nation of underachievers is easier to control than a society that excels.
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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.
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Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
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?
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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 their life without being offended. Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if you open it and read it, you don't have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, or sold, or bought, or read.
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Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.
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Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.
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Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.
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Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free.
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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 is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
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All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cherished beliefs of others; a free society was not placid but turbulent. The bazaar of conflicting was the place where freedom rang.
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