Jack Layton Quotes

I can't imagine life without singing.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.

I believe in singing.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

It's a lovely thing to be able to sing.

I love singing.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

Voice is my instrument.

The key thing for us at Twitter is to recognize our role as the provider of this open platform for free expression ... to recognize that the speech is not our own.... We feel we have a duty to respect and to defend these voices on the platform. The platform of any debate is neutral. The platform doesn't take sides.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter.

The voice of dissent must be heard.

In the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion .... The more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those that are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

Politics is the language through which a free society expresses itself

The American public is capable of doing its own censoring… If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

The very essence of modern life is the opportunity for people everywhere to speak, hear, persuade, change their minds, know what others are thinking, and think for themselves.

Speech should be fruitful as well as free.

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the publick.

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

I will continue to speak out against the views of both Limbaugh and Hannity when I feel it's warranted, meeting their free speech with my own. But I will never forget that, without them, I'd have a much smaller platform on which to do it.

The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.

I'm never not singing.

My view is, let's not shut down anyone's right to speak, let's meet their comments with more speech.