Quotes on Free speech

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Author: Neal Boortz

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Author: Warren Burger

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Author: Christopher Dodd

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Author: Frederick Douglass

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

Author: Mary Jones

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Author: Georgia O'Keeffe

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

Author: Anna Quindlen

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

Author: Robin Quivers

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Author: Muriel Rukeyser

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

Author: Matthew Simpson

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

Author: Loretta Swit