#free speech

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#chills #creates #deny #discretion #existence

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. ↗

— Lucy Stone

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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#benefit #both #exercise #free #free speech

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

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Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. ↗

— Heywood Broun

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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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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

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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

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