Salman Rushdie Quotes About Freedom Of Speech
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.
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But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.
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