You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
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Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
The right of free speech cannot be parceled out based on whether we want to hear what the speaker has to say or whether we agree with those views. It means, quite often, tolerating the expression of views that we find distasteful, perhaps even repugnant.
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
Dissents speak to a future age.
Discussion in America means dissent.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.
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