(76 quotes found)
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”
Edward R. Murrow
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
Howard Zinn
“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
“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
“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“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
“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“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
“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.”
“Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change”
Will Durant
