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  1. Euripides _ The Phoenician Women

    This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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  2. Salman Rushdie

    Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country."
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  3. Salman Rushdie

    The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible."
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  4. Roxane Gay _ Bad Feminist

    We are all free to be assholes, but we are not free to do so without consequence.
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  5. Marjane Satrapi _ Persepolis 2: The Story of a

    The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:"Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me?"- No longer asks herself:"Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it livable? What's going on in the political prisons?"It's only natural! When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.Showing your hair or putting on makeup logically became acts of rebellion."
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  6. Thomas Jefferson _ The Inaugural Speeches and

    If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it."
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  7. John Scalzi

    1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read {or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever}. They're also entitled to express them online.2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don't like.3. Sometimes those opinions won't be very nice.4. The people expressing those may be {but are not always} assholes.5. However, if your solution to this "problem" is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are a bigger asshole.6. You may also be twelve.7. You are not responsible for anyone else's actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own.8. So leave them alone and go about your own life.
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  8. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. _ Palm Sunday: An

    Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be hooked up to a lie detector and asked this question: "Have you read a book from start to finish since high school?" or "Did you even read a book from start to finish in high school?"If the truthful answer is "no," then the candidate should be told politely that he cannot get on the school committee and blow off his big bazoo about how books make children crazy.Whenever ideas are squashed in this country, literate lovers of the American experiment write careful and intricate explanations of why all ideas must be allowed to live. It is time for them to realize that they are attempting to explain America at its bravest and most optimistic to orangutans.From now on, I intend to limit my discourse with dimwitted Savonarolas to this advice: "Have somebody read the First Amendment to the United States Constitution out loud to you, you God damned fool!"Well--the American Civil Liberties Union or somebody like that will come to the scene of trouble, as they always do. They will explain what is in the Constitution, and to whom it applies.They will win.And there will be millions who are bewildered and heartbroken by the legal victory, who think some things should never be said--especially about religion.They are in the wrong place at the wrong time.Hi ho.
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