Read quote“Sometimes it's socially dangerous to stick up against what everybody knows is wrong, when a powerful few are profiteering nearby.”
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About Dissent
Expressions of disagreement, opposition, and principled refusal
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Words on Dissent
Read quote“As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned.”
Read quote“People have a right to raise questions before we start shedding blood.”
Read quote“I don’t think it’s me they hate, it’s my message.”
Read quote“This prospect cheers me, because I value freedom; and have never expected freedom to be anything less than indecent.”
Read quote“While saying a loud NO might at times look quite powerless, it is still immensely more powerful than silence.”
Read quote“I regret nothing. I would do this again if necessary because I think this is an unjust system.”
Read quote“We can learn the art of disagreement from him which is not just the key to democracy but the need of the hour.”
Read quote““from being the disturber of the comfortable to the comforter of the disturbed””
Read quote“It is very important to do this in the spirit of truth-seeking and a refusal to yield to the arguments of the regime.”
Read quote“世間から何といわれても自分の思うところは一歩も枉げない、知己は百年の後に一人得ればよい”
Read quote“And to talk about those things in America is to be radical—just to talk about them.”
Read quote“Cada momento en que nosotros hacemos periodismo de forma independiente estamos fortaleciendo el campo de la libertad y estamos debilitando el poder de la dictadura.”
Read quote“I have tried to make it clear that intimidation won’t silence me.”