A Quote by Jill Stein

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

Jill Stein

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Jill Stein
American - Politician
Born: May 14, 1950

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe

Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.

Roxane Gay

We need to talk to voters in large enough numbers and we need to have conversations that are probing and sustained enough that we understand where they're coming from because nothing is nonsensical. You know, in a democracy, in an election, in an electorate there's a reason why things are happening and it's incumbent upon us to delve deep enough to get at those reasons.

Frank Bruni

Trump was so different - in a bad way - that I thought the best thing I could do was to resist him. And that's because he was attacking the institutions of our democracy, from the First Amendment and the free press to the judiciary. He was stifling internal dissent, and then he was making false and misleading statements routinely. And to me, that's what takes us down the road to authoritarianism and that's why I decided to start resisting him.

Ted Lieu

The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

Alan Keyes

Obama cannot erase the Second Amendment without crippling or controlling exercise of the First Amendment.

Wayne LaPierre

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'

Jacob Rees-Mogg

In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.

Tzipi Livni

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Brad Henry

Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and the leaders of the various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment too. It guarantees my free speech as much as it does their freedom of the press.

Spiro T. Agnew

The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.

Hugo Black

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Phylicia Rashad

The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

Naomi Wolf

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

Arlen Specter

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