Jackie Chan Quotes

We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

In a free state there must be free speech. In libera civitate etiam linguas esse liberas.

Shame! Shame on this House! A civilized society does not stifle opposition. It meets it.

We in the Netherlands have the right to demonstrate and the right to speak up if we don't agree with something.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.

It is my birthright, it is my political right, it is my democratic right, it is my constitutional right... that I must open my mouth... my voice... I can raise my voice.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.

I believe in it so passionately because anywhere you look in the world, where governments become too big or become authoritarian, speech and expression is one of the first fundamental freedoms to go.

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control.

This is what democracy is all about. People have every right to protest whoever's in the White House, without fear of persecution. If this happened in Iran, people would be shot on the streets. This is the United States of America, and we have a First Amendment that protects this kind of speech.

In the end, the thing that's important about free expression is that it's the right from which all other rights are derived. If you can't articulate ideas and if you can't articulate critiques of other peoples' ideas, then you're powerless. What always increases the power of an authoritarian regime is whether it can successfully prevent people from expressing themselves.

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.

The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.