Charles Barkley Quotes

I'm not a controversial person. I'm not trying to polarise people.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

I'm not a hater. I've expressed this before.

I've been personally attacked for respectfully expressing my take on women's empowerment.

I just think political correctness is crap.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

I don't comment on other people's opinion.

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.

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

I don't go down the road of condemning.

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

I don't ever want anyone to think that I'm being judgmental. I gotta do everything I can do to not be preachy.

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.

A liberal is someone who is so open-minded that he won’t even take his own side in an argument.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn't mean you have to.

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.

I chose not to react to everyone's opinion.

I love giving you my opinion, but I don't like taking sides.

You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.