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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.


Salman Rushdie

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Ku Klux Klan into Harlem.
GERRY ADAMS This is like hiring the Ku Klux Klan to represent you in a desegregation case,
JAMES MCELROY It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan,
MITT ROMNEY This is apparently a neighborhood feud. This is not the Ku Klux Klan.
JUDY ORIHUELA When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku K...
MARY DALY In Israel, this position is regarded as somewhat like that of the Ku Klux Klan in the US. These Amer...
GERSHOM GORENBERG The Klan, like everyone else, can pick up garbage on the highway, ... They can't be penalized becaus...
DAVID COLE When you say 'radical right' in America, people think Ku Klux Klan. They think of something ...
MARINE LE PEN We would also urge people who are criticizing these cartoons to speak out forcefully against all for...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and...
CORETTA SCOTT KING A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equali...
MARY DALY One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is...
LEON PANETTA There were a lot of things going on in Florida at the time. There was a lot of (Ku Klux) Klan activi...
DENNIS NORRED If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow neo-Nazis into their parade? If African...
JOHN DUNLEAVY I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black pers...
MARY DALY For the Ku Klux Klan to now attempt to engage schools is a new and scary development in Michigan. Sc...
GREG MURRAY The first amendment [guaranteeing free speech] is alive and well here in Herndon.
CHARLIE WADDELL Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. T...
PETE HAMILL The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress sh...
GREG ALLEN If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech cri...
ANN COULTER I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this c...
ALEJANDRO AVILES We still have a First Amendment that protects your business and free speech.
BILL FLORES I believe in the First Amendment (freedom of speech) very strongly ... and there's no reason to quit...
LARRY FLYNT The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the o...
MIKE GODWIN Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we f...
ROLAND BARTHES I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label ...
DANA CARVEY The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not abs...
JUSTICE ANTHONY KENNEDY The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not abso...
ANTHONY KENNEDY Every aspect of their life, including their social interaction, is threatened. Their whole life chan...
LISA SHIRK If you are an open-minded and tolerant Muslim, you have enough knowledge to question the moves of a ...
LUPE FIASCO This case presents the tension between property rights and speech. When disclosure also presents a m...
IAN BALLON I can't imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restri...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who&...
NICOLE BEHARIE CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I ...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE some of the areas of concern which pose a substantial threat to free speech and free association rig...
JAMES BOPP The Janjaweed are like a grotesque mixture of the mafia and the Ku Klux Klan, ... These guys have a ...
JOHN PRENDERGAST The court affirmed the idea of a vigorous public forum, and that's what's refreshing. The opinion so...
MICHAEL TIGAR I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand t...
ROGER EBERT Our position - our case - is built on clear legal precedent. The [U.S.] Supreme Court has even ruled...
DANIEL MOORE It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For th...
FLOYD ABRAMS All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is den...
VERNON HOWARD All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is den...
VERNON HOWARD From what I can tell about this rating system, it looks like the system speculates about the content...
MARGARET PLANE We didn't have any Ku Klux Klan in Washington, D.C. There was no White Citizens Council. I mean, the...
ED SMITH There should be no real difficulty in condemning Nazis, white supremacists, and the Ku Klux Klan. Th...
ALEXANDRA PETRI The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
GEORGE T. DELACORTE The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democ...
JOICHI ITO The attack on the bus is hate speech, plain and simple.
JACOB REITAN It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatene...
GLENN GREENWALD You don't fight America…You get America’s Democratic and Republican parties to fight each other....
JAMES MORRIS ROBINSON I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've exper...
JANE ELLIOTT I believe these court documents represent hate speech to the extent that they undermine policies in ...
ED ROWE Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsp...
COLIN M. MORRIS So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in G...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if...
CLARENCE THOMAS Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY It was, for him, an object lesson in the importance of the “better out than in” free speech argu...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The First Amendment permits a public university to charge its students an activity fee used to fund ...
ANTHONY KENNEDY The sad reality is that groups have already interacted by insulting each other's religions. In most ...
ANDREW WALSH We are strong supporters of First Amendment rights, and we believe free speech is a two-way street. ...
IBRAHIM HOOPER Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owner...
DAVID STERN Drop in a book by Salman Rushdie or another critic alongside it -- give the students an opportunity ...
JOE GLOVER What we would like them to do is send them a message that this kind of hate speech which is designed...
BILL DONOHUE You have to look at people now that were members of the Klu Klux Klan or whatever else and now are t...
RUTH HANNA SACHS Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, th...
YUSUF ISLAM I went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania like my dad did. I even gave the grad...
AARON KARO Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
YAIR LAPID Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the Fi...
LARRY CRAIG Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the Fi...
LARRY CRAIG Let me give you an example, ... I worked at a television station in Minneapolis back in the 1980s an...
WILLIAM PRICE Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, And...
JEFF GREENFIELD But only after they apologize first for exercising their free speech, is that correct?
JAMES SMITH Death is just a noun which takes all the parts of speech of life with it.
VIKRANT PARSAI Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, th...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to informa...
PETE WILSON Liberals have this pathetic little habit of dealing with people as members of groups, rather than as...
NEAL BOORTZ I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doe...
JON STEWART We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the Fir...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plaus...
SALMAN RUSHDIE widespread use of torture, persecution of minority groups and the denial of freedom of speech, assoc...
JIANG ZEMIN The best answer to bad speech is good speech
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree...
LUKE SCOTT The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is tro...
HANK JOHNSON There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.'
ALAN COLMES I would encourage the commission to weigh heavily the First Amendment rights that we have, because t...
ANN WRIGHT The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organiz...
JOHN WESLEY POWELL So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning...
NEIL GAIMAN We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hat...
HEYWOOD BROUN Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the ...
HUGO BLACK Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection...
NEAL BOORTZ Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the worl...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD The first casualty when war comes is truth (speech, 1917)
HIRAM JOHNSON There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.
MARK TWAIN Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
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SALMAN RUSHDIE I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE There'll be one track that I like and a lot of it that is just wallpaper and sounds the same.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
SALMAN RUSHDIE If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
SALMAN RUSHDIE I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I...
SALMAN RUSHDIE If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it."<...
SALMAN RUSHDIE One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it wo...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, w...
SALMAN RUSHDIE When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Always do something impossible right at the beginning of the show?. Swallow a sword, tie yourself in...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I've tried to live without fear. Fear paralyzes you. I've tried to get on with my life.
SALMAN RUSHDIE I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years..,
SALMAN RUSHDIE Obviously, it is a very great honor and I'm very pleased to have it, and it's very nice to be recogn...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I think it's a stupid way to read a book, ... to say that because something happens to one person th...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal — drives us to ou...
SALMAN RUSHDIE If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it
SALMAN RUSHDIE Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, abou...
SALMAN RUSHDIE A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?’ What ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
SALMAN RUSHDIE From such defensive, separated worlds some youngsters have indefensibly stepped across a moral line ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE However, in the end, the question [remains]: Why him and not the man standing next to him? Why did t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The Satanic Verses.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative...
SALMAN RUSHDIE از همان زمان برمن روشن شد که خانواده به‌طور ضمنی به اصل...
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