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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. Abbie Hoffman
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. Claude Adrien Helvetius
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. Salman Rushdie
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. Evelyn Beatrice Hall
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. John F. Kennedy
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is the hallmark of an authoritarian regime. Justice Potter Stewart
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. Harry S. Truman
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing. Kingsley Amis |
