Margaret Cho Quotes

I love free speech.

I want to stand up for free speech.

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

People have the right to say what they want to.

I don't think people know what freedom of expression really means.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Free speech is life itself.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

In America we don’t apologize for opinions, that’s why we have a 1st Amendment. If we can’t discuss even controversial opinions in the pages of our newspapers, where are we going to do it?

Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. [...] The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. [...] By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.

Democracy depends on the idea that we hold each others’ right to express ourselves and be heard above our own desire to always get the outcomes we want. You can’t impose tolerance top-down.

We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.

I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.

I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here as elsewhere clamped down on in ratio of its freedom and danger?

Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech.

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've lost this great thing that America is, and I'd like to keep that.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.