Don Lemon Quotes

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.

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

The doctrine of toleration requires a positive as well as a negative statement. It is not only wrong to burn a man on account of his creed, but it is right to encourage the open avowal and defense of every opinion sincerely maintained. Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

… 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.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

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

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.

I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.

You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them.

Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Let's not demonize people who don't happen to agree with us.

In Canada we respect freedom of speech but we do not worship it.

Freedom and diversity of thought do not threaten society.