Top 1200 I Have A Dream Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation's problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a 'root' issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.

The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.

We have ways to protect the public when free speech crosses over in hate speech.

Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live.

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech but theirs.

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.

I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

I was going to play pro baseball. That was the dream. But in my sophomore year of high school a teacher who knew I performed, singing in church, she said, 'You know we have a speech team,' and she handed me a copy of 'The Crucible.'

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Products are a form of speech, and free speech must be fiercely protected, even if we disagree with some of the voices.

Hate speech can't be a part of free speech.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

I live inside God's dream for me. I don't try to tell God what I'm supposed to do. . . God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself.

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.

Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that you don't want to hear, that you don't want to listen to.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license," and they will define freedom out of existence.

I don't dream a lot. But whenever I dream, I just dream about the day I just had or something like that. Mostly that's what I dream about. I dream about that current day. Other than that, I don't dream a lot.

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life and God shows up in it, and then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what is more important to you - the dream or him.

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech.

Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his 'I Have A Dream' speech was realized when Obama was elected into office.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.