John Rawls Quotes

Freedom of expression is the foundation of a civil society …. This will come.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL)One man's rights should not be sacrificed for another's prejudices. ...

Freedom of the press and of religious opinion should be inviolate.

Religious and civil liberty are best protected by unbounded freedom of thought.

I am a believer in liberty. That is my religion — to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right — because it is his right — but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge — in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

Freedom of expression is very important.

I wore a uniform to stand up for all rights and that means I don't pick or choose which I defend, whether it's for equality rights or women's rights. I've been consistent on that in my public life. I've also stood up for religious freedom, conscience rights of freedom of speech.

Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can't be used as the basis for denying other people their equal rights and their equal freedom.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.