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That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.