Tom Morello Quotes

Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

In the case of the Obama poster, I was just exercising my First Amendment rights - and my free speech is exercised visually. People who want to talk or write in order to share an opinion about Obama can do that, but when I want to say what I think about him, I need to make a portrait.

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.

Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.

This is America. We're allowed to draw whatever we want.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

We had a responsibility to represent all people whose 1st Amendment rights were at risk

Performance artists in a free society have the right to do the most extraordinary and bizarre things. That’s called ‘Freedom of Speech.’

… art is not only a self-expression but a demonstration of human rights and dignity

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together.

Prior restraints on speech and publication are the most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment Rights.

You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.

The American people must be assured that no federal agency can trample their First Amendment rights.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he had much wavier hair and a slightly thicker mustache. But when you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you're forcing your beliefs on him.

Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.

We still have a First Amendment that protects your business and free speech.

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

I think arts should be liberal, people should be allowed to express themselves. It happens in most democratic countries in the world, and I don't see why it should be different in India.