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“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
John Milton
Liberty
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Knowledge
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Free Speech
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Conscience
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Human Rights
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“The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.”
Voltaire
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Speech Freedom
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Political Rights
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Expression Value
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Moral Rights
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Social Justice
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“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
George R. R. Martin
Silencing
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Power
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Fear
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Truth
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Free Speech
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Repression
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“The political function of ‘the right of free speech’ is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression – not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.”
Ayn Rand
Free Speech
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Politics
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Dissent
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Freedom
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Rights
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Democracy
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“Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.”
John F. Kennedy
Free speech
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Intellectual freedom
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Controversy
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Political thought
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Literature
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Public discourse
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“While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it’s legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can’t share what you want if you don’t have access to the internet.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Free Speech
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Technology
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Access
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Social Media
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Barriers
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Law
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“Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.”
Benjamin Franklin
Liberty
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Free Speech
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Oppression
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Writing
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Genius
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“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”
George Orwell
Free Speech
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Creativity
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Expression
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Control
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Society
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“Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.”
George Orwell
Free Speech
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Expression
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Rights
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Society
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Dissent
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“Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.”
Winston Churchill
Free Speech
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Expression
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Wisdom
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Foolishness
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Discourse
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“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
Winston Churchill
Free Speech
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Tolerance
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Debate
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Opinion
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Irony
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“Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Free Speech
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Democracy
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Press
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Freedom
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Rights
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