Quotes About Expression

Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something that white people do. I think governments, this is a white thing.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.