Betty Friedan Quotes

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

Anyone who believes in tolerance and freedom will support Denmark and publish all 12 cartoons.

It's not my place to say if performers of quenelle should be punished.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

A book is only dangerous when it unmasks something that many people want hidden or it brings to the forefront an issue that many want marginalized.

… most censorship took place in the heads of writers, and what the writers failed to cut usually got filtered out by editors in publishing houses.

Saying the “wrong” thing, a purposefully offensive or demonstrably false thing, has become, for the disaffected, a mark of integrity.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn't mean you have to.

Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.

I don't really see the point in offensive comedy.

I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said on the Internet.

The gay community hated me for being part of Odd Future. They thought Odd Future was homophobic because they tend to use homophobic slang, and they were like: 'How can you work for and support homophobes?' But they aren't homophobic; they just don't really care whether you're offended or not.

You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

When the extreme right-wing... charges forward with a defund Planned Parenthood, anti-Planned Parenthood focused message, what happens is that people rally even more around Planned Parenthood.

This era of political correctness out there needs to go.

Personally, I think people need to get over this 'being offended' thing. Being offended does not give you the right to silence people. I get offended by things all the time - it's just part of life. The right not to be offended is not a human right, especially in a democracy.

I've been personally attacked for respectfully expressing my take on women's empowerment.

I don't believe anything is truly off limits, but as a performer, one has to know that people might be offended, and there are consequences.

I've been no-platformed from every university with a strong Islamic faith community.

The diversity campaign is turning colleges and universities into seminaries for intolerance.

He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said.