{"quotes":[{"text":"Imagination sees the complete reality, - it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent - nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a centre and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects ... Imagination does not uplift: we don't want to be uplifted, we want to be more completely aware.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["centre","freedom-of-speech","future","imagination","present"],"id":557,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.","author":"Jennifer Lanthier","tags":["china","freedom-of-speech","journalism","prison","stamps","writing"],"id":1172,"author_id":"Jennifer+Lanthier"},{"text":"Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.","author":"Maya Angelou","tags":["freedom-of-speech","history","malcom-x","politics","war"],"id":17817,"author_id":"Maya+Angelou"},{"text":"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.","author":"James Madison","tags":["ity","constitution","freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-thought","politics"],"id":19527,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"When you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["caught-by-the-law","disobedience","freedom","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-expression","freedom-of-speech","life","obeying-rules","reasons-why","rules","rules-and-regulations","rules-to-live-by","staying-focused"],"id":28972,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.","author":"Noam Chomsky","tags":["freedom-of-speech","united-states"],"id":29951,"author_id":"Noam+Chomsky"},{"text":"A freedom given up is not so easily regained.","author":"Rivera Sun","tags":["america","civil-liberty","civil-rights-movement","constitution","constitutional-rights","freedom","freedom-of-expression","freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-the-press","freedom-of-thought","novels"],"id":31624,"author_id":"Rivera+Sun"},{"text":"My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["freedom-of-speech","humor"],"id":40769,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.","author":"Murong Xuecun","tags":["freedom-of-speech","literature"],"id":43383,"author_id":"Murong+Xuecun"},{"text":"Everything is temporary, almost like a passing fase, some of laughter Some of pain. What we would do, If we had the chance to explore What we had taken for Granted the very day before, Some would say I'm selfish, To hold a little sadness in my eyes, But they don't feel the sorrow When I can't do, all that helps me feel alive. I can express my emotions, but I can't run wild and free, My mind and soul would handle it but hell upon my hip, ankle and knees, This disorder came about,as a friendship said its last goodbyes, Soooo this is what I got given for all the years I stood by? I finally stand still to question it, life it is in fact? What the fuck is the purpose of it all if you get stabbed in the back? And after the anger fills the air, the regret takes it places, I never wanted to be that girl, Horrid, sad and faded... So I took with a grain of salt, my new found reality, I am not of my pain,the disability doesnt define me. I find away to adjust, also with the absence of my friend,I trust the choices I make, allow my heart to mend. I pick up the piecesI retrain my leg, I find where I left off And I start all over again, You see what happens... When a warrior gets tested; They grow from the ashes Powerful and invested. So I thank all this heartache,As I put it to a rest, I move forward with my life And I'll build a damn good nest.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["complex-regional-pain-syndrome","disability","disabled","expression","forgive","freedom","freedom-of-speech","heartache","injury","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","let-go","poem","poem-of-the-day","poetry","of-the-day","raw","saying-goodbye"],"id":44202,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":159,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}