Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is where the attack is.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of free speech and standing up for others' rights to speak.
Voltairine De Cleyre advocates for the necessity of speaking out, especially when others are oppressed or denied their freedom of expression. She highlights that true liberty is interconnected; if one person's right to speak is suppressed, it threatens everyone's freedom, and thus, one must actively defend and support those who are silenced.
In practice
In a debate about censorship, this quote can underline the importance of defending speech rights.
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license," and they will define freedom out of existence.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
The question of souls is oldβwe demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
For cancer patients like me, and for others who suffer from chronic or life-threatening illnesses, natural disasters don't put health on the back burner.
Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
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