It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. We live in oppressive times. John Morley Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game.
Free speech is life itself.
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. At no time has this ennobled our history. Alexander Solzhenitsyn Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. Alexis de Tocqueville I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.