Quote by Salman Rushdie
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech i

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. – Salman Rushdie

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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie

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History
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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power
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. – Salman Rushdie

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. – Grace (Patricia) Kelly

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart. – Heywood Broun

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you dont agree with. – Eleanor Holmes Norton

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