Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country"

Rick Allen, Musician

"The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist, hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide"

Thaksin Shinawatra, Politician

"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters"

Rich Lowry, Editor

"It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you"

John Dos Passos, Novelist

"My Lords Temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords Spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?"

Sean Hannity, Writer

"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr. Mubarak"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century"

Michael Kinsley, Journalist

"In fact, I think now we've reached a point now where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time, so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority"

George Bancroft, Historian

"When I began, we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem"

John Sayles, Director

"The nature of a democracy consists, to an important degree, in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes"

Walter Ulbricht, Politician

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment"

Robert M. Hutchins, Educator

"But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"Mr. Lennon would want me free, and I'd like to clear that up"

Mark David Chapman, Criminal

"We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question"

Kurt Russell, Actor

"Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action"

Frank Murphy, Politician

"I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way"

Judy Collins, Musician

"We believe, the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken"

Joe Rogan, Comedian

"It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"The United States is the leader of the free world"

Elizabeth Dole, Politician

"Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control"

Ernst Zundel, Activist

"The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom"

Bob Taft, Politician

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