Yishan Wong Quotes

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

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

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque.

You may not like the expression of an opinion, but you can't stop it.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

I'm a strong believer in free speech to the degree that I support everybody's right to speak, including those whose views I find disgusting.

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

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 condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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 am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

I let people say and write what they want.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

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

The American public is capable of doing its own censoring… If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

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

Brown’s core value of promoting the free and open exchange of ideas is bedrock to our capacity to fulfill our mission as a university. This value applies not only when ideas are agreeable and aligned with our own. Protecting the right to free expression and promoting open discourse is even more essential when ideas are divergent, abhorrent or even hurtful.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate.