99 Quotes About First-amendment

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

There are two ways to choke off free expression. We've already discussed one of them: clamp down on free speech and declare some topics off-limits. That strategy is straightforward enough. The other, more insidious way to limit free expression is to try to change the very language people use.

If you want to have everybody agreeing with you, join a club or program or church that agrees with you.

There is no such thing as free speech for some. You either have free speech for everyone or you don't have free speech at all.

I've always been a great advocate of free speech. I think the more perspectives we hear, the better we'll understand how stupid we are.

Change was, indeed, possible, one person at a time.

The ages of individual Supreme Court Justices were of significant concern to Zack, as were the nominations President John would make if these elderly Supreme Court Justices retired or passed away. Zack smiled to himself and wished the justices good health and long life.

As John finished his speech, Zack couldn’t help but wonder how a country that had been served by a brilliant and inclusive president for eight years now chose to elect a narcissistic, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic racist with no experience in government.

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.