“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
Abbie Hoffman
“Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices will prevent the Internet from remaining the thriving medium it has become today.”
John Doolittle
“It's good to know that people like FIRE are there to stand up for people's free speech rights regardless of what their views are.”
Freeman Wicklund
“Both groups have the constitutional right to public right of ways and to free speech. But one group's rights cannot infringe upon one another, and that's what legal observers are there for.”
Steve Smitson
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
Frederick Douglass
“I realize that there are certain limitations placed upon the right of free speech. I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I do not think.”
Eugene Debs
“It is pretty shocking that governmental interference into our rights and free speech takes place in the U.S., ... It's hard to reconcile this with the 'land of the free' and the 'home of the brave.' ”
Howard Stern
