Template:Free speech
It is amazing how many social justice warriors despise liberty and freedom of speech. Evidently they are ignorant of history and the cause of great tyranny throughout mankind which is all the little tyrants that make a habit of despising liberty and freedom of speech.
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washington
“Censorship is to art, as lynching is to justice.” – Henry Louis Gates.
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." Mark Twain.
Freedom of Speech includes the Freedom of Religion.
Speaking of Free speech
- "Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” – Henry Louis Gates.
- “You win a debate with a better argument, not by force.” – Frank Sonnenberg.
- “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell.
- "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
- "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light." George Washington
- "Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." Benjamin Franklin."
- "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." Mark Twain
- "Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent." Alan Dershowitz
- "Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives." Robert Kennedy
- "It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing."
Herodotus
Free speech is an essential element in the individual quest for truth and requires a free conversation among individuals within society in order to overcome bias, prejudice, and delusion. Any hesitation, resistance, or opposition on the allowance of the free exchange of ideas through language and other forms of communication is evidence of Ideological discrimination.[1]
What is Free speech?
Is free speech important to the health of a free society?
Hate speech
The most hateful speech throughout history has been no speech at all because if "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing "[2] then it is certainly equally true that "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men say nothing."
If they do say it but are censored then censorship becomes an act of hatred and the censor a doer if evil.
Censored speech
Not only the censoring of public speech should be barred by the bands of society but the social bonds of society should also include an abhorrence to censorship in every conversation of man.
No speech between the people should be censored unless itself is a crime to plot or perpetrate an injury or harm others without due cause.
Nor is a bearing of false witness to do damage to people or persons acceptable.
Nor to seduce the youth or the cognitively infirm with malicious intent or a desire for unwarranted gain.
- ↑ Ideological discrimination may be on the grounds of political, religious or other ideology, and may include not only discrimination but bigotry and hate which leads to segregation, cancelation, banning, and if allowed to go un challenged will eventually usher in genocide and extermination of both small and large segments of society.
- ↑ The quote, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Often attributed to Edmund Burke erroneously. The philosopher John Stuart Mill, in an 1867 inaugural address at the University of St. Andrews did state: “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”