Thinker
4 december 2004, 17:37
“To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.”
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...”
— Utah Phillips
“The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
— Stephen Biko
“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.”
— Sean O'Casey
“If large numbers of people believe in Free Speech, there will be freedom of speech”
— George Orwell
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
— Howard Zinn
“..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority to set brush fires in people's minds.”
— Samuel Adams
``When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.''
— Emma Goldman
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the
freeness of speech.”
— Ben Franklin
“[T]he right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon ... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”
— James Madison
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
— Patrick Henry
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...”
— Utah Phillips
“The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
— Stephen Biko
“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.”
— Sean O'Casey
“If large numbers of people believe in Free Speech, there will be freedom of speech”
— George Orwell
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
— Howard Zinn
“..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority to set brush fires in people's minds.”
— Samuel Adams
``When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.''
— Emma Goldman
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the
freeness of speech.”
— Ben Franklin
“[T]he right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon ... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”
— James Madison
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
— Patrick Henry