198 Quotes About Free-speech

An over-eating mouth tortures whole body and over-speaking mouth tortures everybody.

You have the right to free speech, as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.

Question the opinions, don't question the facts.

Words can cause real harm and interfere with a person's education. Campuses have a duty to act-- sometimes legally, always morally-- to protect their students from injury.

Campuses can never punish or censor the expression of ideas, however offensive, because otherwise they cannot perform their function of promoting inquiry, discovery, and the dissemination of new knowledge.

Claiming to be silenced amplifies and circulates reactionary forms of speech by generating outrage. And this manoeuvre works not because reactionary feminists are speaking truth to power and being accused of transphobia, but because they are speaking for power by expressing transphobia.

If people can't control their emotions they need to stop trying to control other people's behavior

Anything worth fighting for requires us to be willing to suffer to protect it.

Having the freedom of speech doesn’t mean saying whatever you want, it means saying what’s humane, hateless and non-prejudicial.