Alexis Ohanian Quotes

Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

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.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

… if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.

Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.

A key part of our democracy is having a marketplace of ideas, open forums where people with diverse viewpoints can be heard and treated with respect.

If the so called 'democratic' individuals out there really believe in their talk about diversity, they should let those with truly different opinions be allowed to talk freely in public, too.

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

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

You can't believe how pro-gay and pro-freedom-of-speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

I belong to a generation that has seen the explosion of freedom, the celebration of freedom.

An important part of the Internet is that it provides a space for people whose identities are socially unacceptable. If it enables someone who feels minoritised to be who they want to be, it's actually worth having other people be offensive. I'd much rather have both than have neither.

We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

I hate political correctness.

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.