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Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court.
Products are a form of speech, and free speech must be fiercely protected, even if we disagree with some of the voices.
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.
I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with that.
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
It's impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level.
If you have ever read my columns, you know how important free speech is to me... and how important it should be to everyone.
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.
Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.
Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.
It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.
I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate - especially (especially!) within Muslim communities.
When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.
The new right-wing movement is a wide group of people committed to free speech, anti-war, trade. It's sympathetic to whistleblowers.
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech but theirs.
Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.
Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas, and free speech.
The Right isn't violent; the Left is. By allowing these sociopaths to shut down free speech with violence, you are all but demanding a war.
I'm a strong believer in free speech to the degree that I support everybody's right to speak, including those whose views I find disgusting.
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.
If I, as a liberal, didn't speak out against those who would squelch the free speech of conservatives, I wouldn't deserve to call myself a liberal.
We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.
While everyone has First Amendment rights to free speech, the law strictly prohibits attorneys from releasing confidential and privileged information.
Donald Trump doesn't care about free speech. The man who tweets everything that enters his head doesn't care about the amendment which lets him do that.
Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.
When it comes to free speech and participation in the democratic process, our laws should reflect the goal of making it easier for more citizens to engage.
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
See, believe it or not, I actually support complete free speech not because I don't care about the welfare of the American people. I support it because I do.
A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.
Liberals shouldn't cede the responsibility to defend free speech on college campuses to conservatives. After all, without free speech, what's liberalism about?
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth, after all, that sets us free.
I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech - that there was an intolerance about different ideas and opinions.
Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes in the court of public opinion.
The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.