Its a little shocking when you have a university like West Chester wanting you to give up your rights to anonymity and free speech. But thats what this policy is doing. It is stifling all speech and it is unconstitutional.
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This kind of advertising has great appeal to young people, but the line where the states and the government can restrict that speech is very squishy.
U.S.A. is the speech of the people.
A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.
When he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
We plan to keep contacting folks in the SRI industry until we find someone who is willing to take a stand against violent hate speech.
My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
EXCOMMUNICATION, n.This excommunication is a word In speech ecclesiastical oft heard, And means the damning, with bell, book and candle, Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal -- A rite permitting Satan to enslave him Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. --Gat Huckle
It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man
Speech is clamped in the lips' vice.
Their manners, speech, dress, friendships, -- the freshness and candor of their physiognomy -- the picturesque looseness of their carriage -- their deathless attachment to freedom -- their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean -- the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states -- the fierceness of their roused resentment -- their curiosity and welcome of novelty -- their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy -- their susceptibility to a slight -- the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors -- the fluency of their speech -- their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul -- their good temper and open-handedness -- the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him -- these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.
In America, money does not equal speech, ... More money does not entitle one to more speech. The powerful are not entitled to a greater voice in politics than average people. Everyone has an equal say in our government that's why our Declaration of Independence starts with 'We the people.'
The commercial, free speech, educational potential of the Internet will be stifled, but we still won't have solved the problem of protecting children from pornography.
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Cisco has never and will never work with a foreign government of any type for the purpose of restricting political speech.
There are limits when free speech becomes bigotry. We are trying to set limits while still protecting free speech.
You, Lord Archbishop,
Whose see is by a civil peace maintain'd,
Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd,
Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd,
Whose white investments figure innocence,
The dove, and very blessed spirit of peace-
Wherefore you do so ill translate yourself
Out of the speech of peace, that bears such grace,
Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of war;
Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood,
Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine
To a loud trumpet and a point of war?
Greenspan is giving a speech Monday night to some overseas bankers, then Thursday he will speak to Congress. Investors will be looking to him to clarify.
We made a business decision to be pornography free. Some pure Net types will view this as a violation of free speech, but we want to use this for educational markets.
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.
We are quite relieved. It has been a test of free speech, and we hope the government will now get off the backs of our Muslim community.
I think people need to speak their minds. The best way to save our freedom of speech is to express it.
In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world as to say, The world says, or There is a speech abroad.
It was not a speech of surprises. Assuming other foreign ministries have been listening, I don't what they would have learned today that they already didn't know.
Instead of a State of the Union address, the president kicked off his re-election campaign. His speech was long on rhetoric and short on resources.
Once we read the speech we knew it would be a gradual increase, ... The Fed doesn't want to be aggressive without the smoking gun of inflation.
We'll create a rapid response unit here at the State Department, it's already in the works, to monitor media and help us more aggressively respond to rumors, inaccuracies and hate speech.
In the past, I have taken positions in support of free speech. And I thought, if I'm going to try to be consistent about free speech, how could I tell Scott to take the sign down
We agree with the District Courts conclusion that the Communications Decency Act places an unacceptably heavy burden on protected speech... In Sable v. FCC we remarked that the speech restriction at issue there amounted to 'burning the house to roast the pig.' The CDA, casting a far darker shadow over free speech, threatens to torch a large segment of the Internet community.
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of ''happiness'' has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.
There was nothing surprising in the speech. That opened the door for a late buying opportunity.
I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
A speech is poetry cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
We want parents to talk to kids. It's free speech. We can't stop students from participating. But if they do this, first of all, it's skipping school. And second, talk to them about safety. If you're walking across town, be careful.
By adopting a prayer policy that allows only nondenominational prayer, the City Council has effectively deprived Turner of his freedom of speech under the First Amendment.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.
The president didn't even tell the truth in his speech, ... He said that the Senate had the same intelligence that everybody else did. That was not true. He withheld some intelligence.
In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.
When Bill Bennett, the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus and theologian Michael Novak go to the synagogue, it's not to read the Torah. They're going there to make a speech.