Balachandra Menon Quotes

The rule is, you can protest all you want. Make all the noise you want. Carry all the signs you want. The minute you throw a rock, you get arrested. The minute you break a window, you get arrested. The minute you break into a store, you get arrested.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

The law is clear that the right to petition one's government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups…. The right to protest should be commensurate with the enormity of the wrongs that are being protested.

We in the Netherlands have the right to demonstrate and the right to speak up if we don't agree with something.

I feel like if a dude wants to get his point across and wants to protest, I feel like he has the right to do that.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

The right to control their own government according to constitutional forms is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war.

The rights of free speech and free press do not carry with them the right to advocate the right to advocate the destruction of the very government that protects the freedom of an individual to express his views.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

It is every American's right to question any big event, especially when it's seized on to take the basic liberties of Americans.

We have the right to peacefully assemble in the United States.

There are many avenues to peacefully protest, but those rights don't extend to illegal actions, breaching security perimeters, and threatening police officers.

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.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

I have the right to speech and expression and I won't leave that.

Freedom of speech, the right to dissent, the right to protest, that is what America is about. And politically every leader in this country and every American has got to stand up against any form of violence. That is unacceptable.

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.

Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that's what this country was built on.

It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.