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Well, it looks like it's over, it means everything. It means freedom.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
These are not good days for liberty. If you look around the world, you see that the idea of freedom, freedom which contains a sense of carefree-ness, seems everywhere in retreat, hounded by guns and bombs.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The idea that students should not be intellectually challenged at universities is exactly what we should fight.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It prevents us from being the kind of creatures that we are. It is not something which is specific to one culture. It is something universal to human beings.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The French satirical tradition has always been very pointed and very harsh, and still is, you know, the thing that I really resent is the way in which these, our dead comrades ... who died using the same implement that I use, which is a pen or pencil, have been almost immediately vilified and called racists and I don't know what else.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is, 'Freedom is Indivisible,' you can't slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hedbo. ... But the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
And so artists who go to that edge and push outwards often find very powerful forces pushing back. They find the forces of silence opposing the forces of speech. The forces of censorship against the forces of utterance, at that boundary is that push-and-pull between more and less. And that push and pull can be very dangerous to the artist. And many artists have suffered terribly for that.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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