John Shelby Spong Quotes

Our Constitution protects the rights of people to make abject idiots of themselves. 

Americans cling tenaciously to the belief that they have the right to entire freedom of opinion and freedom of action so long as they do the work for which they are employed. The man who happens to be working in a factory has just as much right to his personal likes and dislikes as his employer; and the employee might as well resent any effort on the part of the man who happens to be at the time his superior in authority to tell him how he must regulate his personal private affairs.

Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.

Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.

We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.

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

Everyone has the right to express his thoughts, to express himself as he wants.

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

The Liberty of Conscience and of the Press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified by any authority of the United States

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

A free People will be showing that they are so, by their Freedom of Speech

I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.

Everyone has an opinion, and everyone should be entitled to say whatever they want.

I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.

I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.