„Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.“

— Bob Marley

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„The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.“
— Ayn Rand
„If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.“
— Noam Chomsky
„Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.“
— Rosa Luxemburg
„If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.“
— Noam Chomsky
„While, legally and constitutionally, speech may be free, the space in which that freedom can be exercised has been snatched from us and auctioned to the highest bidders.“
— Arundhati Roy
„Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.“
— James Baldwin