Theo Epstein Quotes

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

In Canada we respect freedom of speech but we do not worship it.

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.

We have no blasphemy laws these days but with that freedom comes the responsibility which should always attend the exercise of free speech: truth, courtesy and an awareness of impact. It is the last of these which is so neglected by so much modern comedy.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

The First Amendment's protections have always put a great deal of responsibility in our hands: not only to respect the power of our own speech, but also to respect that same power in the hands of people we despise.

The Constitution protects freedom of speech, but we must expect more from our elected officials to heal divisions in our country and unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism.

Americans have fought and died around the globe to protect the right of all people to express their views, even views that we profoundly disagree with. We do not do so because we support hateful speech, but because our founders understood that without such protections, the capacity of each individual to express their own views and practice their own faith may be threatened. We do so because in a diverse society, efforts to restrict speech can quickly become a tool to silence critics and oppress minorities.

I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

I think it's important, however, that as we again talk about the importance of free speech we make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not America they are not who were they are not what we do and they will be prosecuted, so I want that message to be clear also.

I hate political correctness.

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

Whether you are Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative, we should never, never, never allow ourselves emotionally to interfere with another person's right to express themselves.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.