Enes Kanter Quotes

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

The more rulers strive to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately are they resisted; …. laws directed against opinions affect the generous minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright; so that they cannot be maintained without great peril to the state.

I am not a Republican. I do not believe in criminalizing the activities of the people I disagree with.

When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.

When a government is in fear of dissent from its own citizens, and when its reaction is to shut out that dissent, we should all worry.

Who is against human rights in Belarus today? Of course, no one should view human rights as the right to smash shop windows or stir up unrest in the streets.

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.

We know what totalitarian looks like, we know what oppression looks like, we know what the dumb culture of totalitarianism smells like. This is it! It's happening now, and the future of the world is being decided. So, get out there, make your own sites, take action!

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

I refuse to be silenced.

In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years.

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Civic murder … This free republic has killed five men for their opinions.