Famous Quotes & Sayings

William O. Douglas

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

Lajos Kossuth

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

Bernie Sanders

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Thomas Kuhn

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

John Stuart Mill

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

Jill Johnston

Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.

Daisaku Ikeda

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Malcolm X

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.

Viola Spolin

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Roger Ebert

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Larry Flynt

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

Miroslav Volf

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

Potter Stewart

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Larry the Cable Guy

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.