Roxane Gay Quotes

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

We had a responsibility to represent all people whose 1st Amendment rights were at risk

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation. 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.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that you don't want to hear, that you don't want to listen to.

I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].

If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?

The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is.

This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property... Some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcement than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil liberties of law-abiding Americans. This bill, while crafted with good intentions, is rife with constitutional infringements I could not support.

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.