It’s important for people to realize that if they want to use their privilege in the right way, amplify the voices of the people who have historically been unheard.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. I’m grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

The freedom of speech is the most important freedom.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, "open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world."

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

I think it`s just a - it`s a question of moral choice, and I cannot say that everyone has to make that choice, but I definitely have much more respect to those people who make moral choice not to be silent and go and express their position, whether it`s on the streets or on the Internet. Use your voice while you still can use it, because maybe tomorrow you`re not going to have it anymore.

[Freedom of speech] is not only the natural privilege of liberty but also its support and preservation, every man therefore here is allowed to declare his sentiments openly, to speak or write whatever is not prohibited by the laws.

Thank God for the mind. It's the only place where we have freedom of speech.

What a privilege it is to be able to say it’s hard to hear someone’s story.

It's knowing that I have a voice and I am speaking for people that don't have the platform that I do.

But but but what is the point of giving persons Freedom of Speech,’ declaimed Butt the Hoopoe, ‘if you then say they must not utilize same? And is not the Power of Speech the greatest Power of all? Then surely it must be exercised to the full?

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.