#free speech

You must stand for free speech in the streets. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#free speech #must #speech #stand #streets

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#choice #free #free speech #fundamental #human

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#free speech #our #penalty #period #poems

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#ball game #free #free speech #game #itself

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime. ↗

— Frank Serpico

#becoming #crime #free #free speech #harder

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#bondage #chains #free #free speech #had

Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd. ↗

— Roger Stone

#campaign #clause #constitution #different #equal

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

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#choices #free #free speech #help #infringing

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#amendment #amendment rights #beliefs #believe #censorship