Freedom of speech
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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
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Orator at London's Speakers' Corner, 1974
Title page of Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or List of Prohibited Books (Venice, 1564)
In Panegyricae orationes septem (1596), Henric van Cuyck, a Dutch Bishop, defended the need for censorship and argued that Johannes Gutenberg's printing press had resulted in a world infected by "pernicious lies"—so van Cuyck singled out the Talmud and the Qur'an, and the writings of Martin Luther, Jean Calvin and Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Speakers' Corner
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A Speakers' Corner is an area where free speech, open-air public speaking, debate, and discussion are allowed. The original and best known is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in Westminster, Engl
Freedom of speech
…Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) Orator at London's Speakers' Corner, 1974 Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear…
Speakers' Corner, April 1987
"One world" speaker supporting a world government, August 2006
A Christian speaker at Speakers' Corner (2010)