Counter Speech Quotes

The long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Antonin Scalia was saying, and Donald Trump knows this as well, the answer to it is not to punish people, to shut 'em up, to put 'em in jail. The answer is more speech. If there's some clown burning the flag, drape yourself in the flag and go run around right in the guy's face and start telling him how much you love America. Donald Trump's not gonna put anybody in jail. He's not gonna strip their citizenship. This is how Donald Trump tells people what he thinks about it.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

I try to counter what Donald Trump says that might have an effect on somebody.

If you're offended, what the Supreme Court has said the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it's more speech. There are many people in America who don't get that.

I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.

My view is, let's not shut down anyone's right to speak, let's meet their comments with more speech.

I want to try to counter what Donald Trump says because a lot of it is mean-spirited and would hurt people.

When someone writes something hateful and threatening I respond with something like, "I want to be so much like you; I want to wear your skin." By messing with them in that way you change what they're selling. They won't share it. And it halts the conversation. Or I'll change it to "Jenny, you're like a rose bush that grew a watermelon." They come back pissed off and write, "I didn't say that!"