#freedom of speech

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history. ↗

— David Icke

#another #closed #demand #down #freedom

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#about #also #community #down #freedom

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ↗

— George Washington

#dumb #freedom #freedom of speech #led #like

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. ↗

— Herodotus

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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comes #comics #easy #election #eroded

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#amendment rights #book #comic #comic book #comics

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. ↗

— John Mortimer

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We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#freedom #freedom of speech #opposes #right #should