“If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?” ― Michel Templet

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” ― Euripides, The Phoenician Women

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” ― United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...” ― Utah Phillips

“Freedom of speech gives us the right to offend others, whereas freedom of thought gives them the choice as to whether or not to be offended.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.” ― Thomas L. Friedman

We have these cultural norms, and we allow people to say ugly things. We don't have to like it, we don't have to invite them to our dinner parties, but you should let them say it. - Jeff Bezos

While, legally and constitutionally, speech may be free, the space in which that freedom can be exercised has been snatched from us and auctioned to the highest bidders. - Arundhati Roy

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