Niger Innis Quotes

We are the only country that allows and protects hate speech.

The best way to deal with the neo-Nazi movements is not to overreact and curtail their free speech rights which would make you no better than they are.

Being a bigot does not void your 1st Amendment rights.

Hate speech can't be a part of free speech.

Nowhere does our Constitution say we cannot say something about another's religion. Nowhere does our Constitution say we cannot say anything that offends someone.

I support Richard Spencer's right to say what he wants. He can be nasty about Jewish people, he has a right to free speech, but I don't want to be a part of that.

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 think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

Religious liberty doesn't include encouraging a fellow American to engage in violent jihad and kill an American here. That is not protected free speech. That is not protected religious belief.

Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.

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

We all find flag burning repugnant. We find burning crosses repugnant. But they have been burning crosses longer than they have been burning flags and there has been no rush for a constitutional amendment to stop the burning of crosses.

Liberty resides in the rights of those people whose views we find most odious.

This is a country where loose talk is encouraged by the Constitution.

If there is liberty, if there is democracy, in this country, it will stand or fall with the right of the minority to express to the full force of language its opposition in public to the policies of the government. And it will stand or fall with the courage of the minority so to express itself.

Under the privilege of the 1st Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government.

The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.

Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.

I think the I.R.S. is a Sword of Damocles over the First Amendment, and I think it is a menace.

Israel is stupid for allowing people to vent their anti-Semitism.

I just think political correctness is a limitation on our First Amendment freedoms.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.