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- Nov 07, 2020
First Amendment Rights Quotes
Free speech, protest, and who the law protects.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's long court record shows how far First Amendment protections actually reach — covering felons in jail as much as anyone else. These quotes trace that same argument through free speech and dissent. See more in First quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of the Obama poster, I was just exercising my First Amendment rights - and my free speech is exercised visually. People who want to talk or write in order to share an opinion about Obama can do that, but when I want to say what I think about him, I need to make a portrait.
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York Times' - coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers - were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
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- Nov 07, 2020
While everyone has First Amendment rights to free speech, the law strictly prohibits attorneys from releasing confidential and privileged information.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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- Nov 07, 2020