Democratization is not democracy;
Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech. Gail Sheehy
Speech
Phil Gramm had a
Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother’s devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got him into a special school that turned him around – under a government program for the children of deceased veterans. He was repeatedly asked at press conferences why he would then turn around … Read more
I became simply a
I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far off to hear his voice, no words because I was too distant for speech, and no thoughts – those I saved for later. He bent his head. I loved the hairs on the … Read more
We owe to democracy,
We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself… which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it … Read more
Speech is our second
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. Gabriela Mistral
By the end of
By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit.That was the only class I got an A in … Read more
Sometimes [high school speech
Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year. Gabriel Iglesias
I got on the
I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking. Gabriel Iglesias
Freedom of speech trumps
Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about. Ezra Levant
Objectivity and again objectivity,
Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as addled mosses dank), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn’t, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say. Ezra Pound