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1933: The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself, from the first inaugural address of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 1933: Atatürk's Tenth Year Speech, given by the President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Ankara Hippodrome. 1934: Every Man A King, a phrase used in many speeches by Louisiana Governor Huey Long.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, then-Wikimedia Foundation executive director Katherine Maher, and other Wikipedians at Wikimania 2017. This list of Wikipedians includes notable editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, as well as other notable people associated with the project.
The Free Speech Movement ( FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. [ 1] The Movement was informally under the central leadership of Berkeley graduate student Mario Savio. [ 2] Other student leaders include Jack Weinberg, Tom ...
Members of the division were implicated in the 25 August 1944 murder of 33 people in the village of Torlano near Nimis in Italy, and 22 other major crimes. At the post-war Nuremberg trials , the Waffen-SS was declared to be a criminal organisation due to its major involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The United States Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. The text of the First Amendment states that: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress ...
During colonial times, English speech regulations were rather restrictive.The English criminal common law of seditious libel made criticizing the government a crime. Lord Chief Justice John Holt, writing in 1704–1705, explained the rationale for the prohibition: "For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it."
No State Shall Abridge. Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History is a non-fiction book about the history of freedom of speech in the United States, written by Michael Kent Curtis and published in 2000 by Duke University Press. The book discusses the evolution of free speech in the U ...
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The right to freedom of expression has been recognised as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law by ...