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Quotes About Dissenters

What is novel is a president who wishes to maintain, while in office, a personal security force which during his campaign used force against dissenters.
~ Timothy Snyder
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
~ Carol P. Christ
Medical science has been hijacked by politically correct lobbyists. Dissenters, daring to question the new orthodoxy of the group-think obsessionals, are found guilty of thought crime and sentenced to be vilified and suppressed. Group-think unoriginality oppresses and suppresses. Vaccination is just one of many areas of medicine now considered to be beyond debate.
~ Unknown
Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.
~ David Ogilvy
There were many human groups that did not go to war; the Eskimos never grasped the idea at all, and the American Indians never took to it well. But these dissenters were wiped out, and a cultural pattern was established that became the standard for the whole planet. Now it has become ingrained in us.
~ Philip K. Dick
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The left's goal here is to stigmatize resistance as discrimination and to ruthlessly punish dissenters so that everyone is suitably warned.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
~ A. J. P. Taylor
The ultimate problem of utopian logic begins with a utilitarian calculus in which everyone will live in perfect harmony once we get rid of any dissenters who don't see as clearly as the collective.
~ Michael Shermer
When people feel that their voices are heard—and can see real change made—they are less likely to exit. Conversely, when voices are not heard—as when nations silence political dissenters by locking them up or executing them—exit becomes the only viable strategy for change, and that can lead to violence. In
~ Michael Shermer