https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
From the UDHR:
Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Something for the censor-happy tech giants to think about.
From Leaves of Healing by John Alexander Dowie 1904
"I have a right to continue to speak...If you do not want to hear me speak you have a right to go out, but you have no right to stay here and prevent my speaking. Those who do not wish to hear me speak tonight ought not to have come into this meeting
I have a right to speak. You have no right to interrupt me."
From Freedom and Its Fundamentals By Charles T. Sprading 1923
"If a man has a right to think, he has a right to speak; if he has a right to speak, he has a right to publish his thoughts. Complete freedom of speech means the liberty to denounce or ridicule; it is not only the freedom to say something complimentary of the good, but things uncomplimentary of the bad. Liberty to oppose is as necessary as liberty to uphold."
See also: Free Speech IS the Speech You Hate - Quotations on Freedom of Expression
John Stuart Mill once wrote, “If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
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