{"quotes":[{"text":"I detect the activist returning with a vengence.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["activism","activist","demonstrations","fight-for-your-right","free-speech","gadfly","help-your-community","protest","public-protest","rights","rights-of-man","vengence","worthy-causes"],"id":1562,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.","author":"John Updike","tags":["constitution","free-speech","politics","united-states","united-states-constitution","war"],"id":27077,"author_id":"John+Updike"},{"text":"The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["democracy","democracy-fascism","democracy-freedom","democracy-voting","elections","free-speech","freedom","government","liberty","media","political-science","politics-observation","politics-science","politicsics","power","president","republicans","responsibility","vote","voters","voting","voting-rights"],"id":35106,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of tho.","author":"Anthony M. Kennedy","tags":["first-amendment","free-speech","freedom","freedom-of-thought","liberty"],"id":43083,"author_id":"Anthony+M.+Kennedy"},{"text":"Women that speak against Islam are being labelled as islamophobic, as though our right to free speech is disregarded, when it comes down to an oppressive regime, which does not even recognise women as human...","author":"Anita B. Sulser PhD","tags":["feminism","free-speech","freedom","human","islamophobia","oppression","truth","womens-rights"],"id":66539,"author_id":"Anita+B.+Sulser+PhD"},{"text":"Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech, had been the seat and soul of abrogating freedom of speech, if the first assault on its freedom can be said to be restricting, or handcuffing speech. The day she heard “redneck” on NPR, she turned NPR off, not because broadcasters were still using the term, but because she knew one day they would not be. In fact, she had a vision of the quiet moment backstage at a Boston studio when a good, surprised correspondent was let go for saying “redneck” the last time it would be said.","author":"Padgett Powell","tags":["free-speech","political-correctness","truth"],"id":67376,"author_id":"Padgett+Powell"},{"text":"Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.","author":"Pericles","tags":["courage","free-speech","freedom","happiness"],"id":69075,"author_id":"Pericles"},{"text":"If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bigotry","discrimination","first-amendment","free-speech","freedom-of-speech","hate","homophobia","racism","white-privilege"],"id":69337,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?","author":"Gerry Spence","tags":["free-speech","liberty"],"id":87627,"author_id":"Gerry+Spence"},{"text":"This is a forum for readers. Authors walk these halls at their own risk. I’ve been to the Coliseum in Rome. GR is just that. Books are gladiators. Readers are ravenous citizens awaiting their next bite of entertainment, all Caesars with thumbs readied for judgement. Even champions fall prey to sword now and then. And you know what they say about the pen and the sword…the analogy is a bit muddled, but it’s in there somewhere.","author":"Willow Madison","tags":["-on-","free-speech","gladiators","goodreads","pen-and-sword","readership","reviews","writers-on-writing"],"id":89871,"author_id":"Willow+Madison"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":71,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}