Angela Merkel Quotes

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.

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

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

Any open society that tolerates intolerance, sees tolerance disappear and the tolerant along with it.

Those who claim to uphold freedom of speech by defending the right to reproduce insulting depictions of the prophet are in effect saying to Muslims that what they hold dear and sacred is far more worthy of protecting than what Muslims hold dear and sacred. The cartoons had more to do with incitement of hatred, racism and Islamophobia than with freedom of expression.

It is our firm belief, nay a conviction which constitutes one of the basic values of a free society to which we are wedded under our Constitution, that there must be freedom not only for the thought that we cherish, but also for the thought that we hate

As a young constitutional lawyer, I was put to the first amendment test when I was called on to defend racists and neo-Nazis. I really had no choice. Surely now we know that none of us do. Free speech is unequivocal, unpolitical, and indivisible.

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

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

Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken tolerance to such an extreme that we tolerate the immigration into our country of millions of intolerant people who hate millions of Americans who are already here.

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

I don't have a problem with people from Slovakia and Lithuania. But I do have a problem with immigration from Islamic countries.

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

In the job of a member of the Supreme Court of the United States, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job. And so I respect the right of individuals to have strongly held opinions and to express those opinions in our country.

If someone were to say, we should not letting Jews into the country, and people had a reaction against that, would that be the same thing as that kind of toxic political correctness tamping down honest discussion?

Spain is not a racist country.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

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.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.