“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
Howard Zinn
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”
Edward R. Murrow
“There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential.”
William Orville Douglas
“The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them”
Henry Louis Mencken
“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.”
J. William Fulbright
