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The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. -- Byron White
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public. -- Mordechai Vanunu
You have the right to speak your mind. -- Norman Mailer
Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks. -- Alfred North Whitehead
[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven. -- Bertrand Russell
Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely. -- Hillary Clinton
I believe everyone here has a right to speak out on politics as effectively as possible. -- Ted Cruz
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable. -- Sophocles
Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds. -- Virginia Woolf
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right. -- Potter Stewart
We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble. -- Heather Brooke
When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel. -- Judith Butler
Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others... -- Charles Rembar
I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous? -- Lisa Edelstein
Free speech includes the right to not speak. -- Jimmy Wales
I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now. -- Lesley Garrett
Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind. -- Emily Robison
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. -- Rebecca Solnit
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. -- Jose Marti
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. -- Don DeLillo
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. -- Don Henley
The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women. -- Allison Anders
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? -- Russell Hoban
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one. -- Marian Keyes
I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do. -- Jerry Greenfield
I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right. -- Cherie Blair
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly. -- Henry Eyring
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated. -- Malala Yousafzai
Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority. -- John Paul Stevens
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me! -- Thomas Otway
Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right. -- T. B. Joshua
To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight. -- Homer
We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality -- Sunday Adelaja
Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care. -- Simon Sinek
I've got some cool features with some cool people coming out but I can't speak on it right now. -- B.J. The Chicago Kid
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say. -- Walter Lippmann
Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized. -- Marcus Thomas
Follow the deer? Follow the Christ the King. Live pure, speak true,right wrong, Follow the King-- Else, wherefore born? -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child. -- Malala Yousafzai
The media wanted me to speak since morning. But I wanted to speak to Vadodara first Vadodara has first right on me. -- Narendra Modi
Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right? -- Cornelia Funke
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. -- Evan Esar
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality. -- Albert Einstein
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America. -- Edward R. Murrow
You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately. -- Chita Rivera
Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts. -- Toba Beta
Michael Gove is the right leader for the country. He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate . -- Dominic Raab
Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right. -- Ann Patchett
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Text a guy you like right now, "I'm thinking about you." If he says, "mmm are you in bed?" Never speak to him again he's a lifelong moron. -- Dane Cook
People will speak slowly to me sometimes. And they always ask me if I'm all right, because I'm much more low-key and reserved than my character in 'Friends'. -- Matt LeBlanc
If anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Someone from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail. -- Stephen Colbert
It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill! -- Mother Teresa
The Lorax,'...it's a mythical, woodland creature, right, who's for saving trees. He speaks for the trees because no one else can. Kind of the way conservatives speak for fetuses. -- Bill Maher

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