#speech

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

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La prensa crítica no derriba gobiernos ni por sí sola modifica el rumbo de la política, pero sin ella se perjudicaría mucho más la salud mental de sus lectores. ↗

— Carlos Monsivais

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If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." [Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945] ↗

— George Orwell

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Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#inspirational #speech #inspirational

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93] ↗

— Northrop Frye

#literary-criticism #education

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#cut #down #kind #mount #nixon

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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