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    James Madison
    “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.”
    ― James Madison
    tags: authority, constitution, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, politics
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    Neil Gaiman
    “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.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: freedom-of-speech, inspirational
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    Philip Pullman
    “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.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: freedom-of-speech, reading, writing
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    “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?”
    ― Michel Templet
    tags: civil-disobedience, freedom-of-speech, politics
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    Yumi Tamura
    “I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)”
    ― Yumi Tamura, Basara, Vol. 13
    tags: freedom-of-speech
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    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “If you can’t write freely and if you can’t speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!”
    ― Mehmet Murat ildan
    tags: freedom-of-speech
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    Arundhati Roy
    “Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what's happening is just the opposite. The world over, non-violent resistance movements are being crushed and broken. If we do not respect and honour them, by default we privilege those who turn to violent means.”
    ― Arundhati Roy
    tags: arundhati-roy, democracy, dissent, freedom-of-speech, on-terrorism, peaceful-protest, protest
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.”
    ― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    tags: abolition, beauty-in-literature, freedom, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, inspirational
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    William O. Douglas
    “The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."

    [Beauharnais v.Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (1952) (dissenting)]”
    ― William O. Douglas
    tags: censorship, free-speech, freedom-of-speech, liberty, orthodoxy, political
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it."

    [First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, The Inaugural Speeches and Messages of Thomas Jefferson, Esq.: Late President of the United States: Together with the Inaugural Speech of James Madison, Esq. ...
    tags: founding-fathers, freedom-of-speech, thomas-jefferson
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    Vera Nazarian
    “A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.

    Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: choir, chorus, choruses, cooperation, free, free-speech, harmonize, harmonizing, harmony, join, joining, loud, loudmouths, music, singing, soft, song, speak, speak-up, speaking-out, speech, speechless, together, unity, vocalize, vocalizing, voice, voices, working-together
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    Anthony Liccione
    “If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather use your gift to help others find their own way to strength.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: assist, change-for-the-better, find, gift, god, intimidate, overpower, people, provide-a-way, serve, strength-and-courage, support, to-be-of-use, way-to-life
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    Walt Whitman
    “The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
    Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: find, life, sail-forth, seek, untold-want, voyager
    90 likes



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