Freedom Of Speech Quotes

Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.

~ M.i.a.

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

~ Alan Dershowitz

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

~ George Washington

Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.

~ Jean-Michel Jarre

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

~ Leslie Jones

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

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

~ Charles B. Rangel

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

~ Jimmy Wales

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

~ Larry Craig

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

~ Eminem

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

~ George Pataki

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

~ Salman Rushdie

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

~ Floyd Abrams