Quotes About Speech

My brother was diagnosed with autism at age 2. At the time, I was young, so I didn't really understand what it all meant. The doctors thought there was a possibility my brother wouldn't be able to speak - he was diagnosed on the severe end of the spectrum.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

I defected to South Korea in search of freedom of speech and movement. I had longed to put my feet on this soil, even in my dreams.

The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.

Congress created a safe harbor for defamation in 1996 and for copyright in 1998. Both safe harbors were designed to ensure that the Internet would remain a participatory medium of speech.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.