Protecting basic rights such as freedom of expression enhances social stability.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
Freedom of expression is very important.
Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.
I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.
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