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Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter’s claim.... We have alternatives to violence. – Abe Fortas	added by Normando 6 months ago
We have made multiple good faith attempts to find common ground so we could see this critical piece of information. Unfortunately, Secretary Blinken has refused to provide the Dissent Cable and his response to the cable, forcing me to issue my first subpoena as chairman of this committee. – Michael McCaul	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m not expecting that we will see a lot of dissent in terms of votes, i think where we might see it is how they color the data that they’re seeing. – Ellen Meade	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our country has a strong historical commitment to free and open debate and to protect the ability of those who dissent from the government’s view to express their own opinions. We have no doubt that courts will see this unconstitutional law for what it is and strike it down. – Jenin Younes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This latest revelation proves the CDC is rolling full steam ahead with their censorship campaign against citizens who speak up, this new scheme to use taxpayer money – intended to further scientific inquiry – to instead stifle researchers and anyone who dares dissent from the Biden administration's ever-changing COVID narrative is unsurprising and unacceptable. – Chip Roy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent. And they must give it the respect and the latitude which they claim for themselves. – Abe Fortas	added by Normando 2 years ago
I'm sure if the court reverses the lower court decisions, there will be a dissent arguing that they should have upheld the decisions. So, it could be a fragmented court, but the majority might be split between people who say diversity is not compelling and people who say, ‘Wait, we still want to recognize that it’s compelling, but we don't believe Harvard or North Carolina offered sufficient evidence that the programs were necessary,'. – Rachel Moran	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Inside the kingdom, the social and economic reforms that are strongly popular with the next generation of Saudis continue to move forward in important ways, and the old ways of thinking grounded in a conservative interpretation of Islam are being pushed further to the sidelines, nevertheless, Saudi Arabia remains an absolute monarchy intolerant of a diversity of views, and it still takes troubling measures to stifle dissent. It has a lot of work to do in respecting basic human rights and freedoms including religious freedom. – Brian Katulis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
How does the dissent account for the fact that one of the mass shootings near the top of its list took place in Buffalo ? The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop the perpetrator. – Samuel Alito	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think there's a good chance this is going to go up to the Court next term, that's partly why this dissent was short and the other justices didn't say anything, because they see this coming. – Berin Szoka	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Colorado has weaponized its law to silence speech it disagrees with, to compel speech it approves of, and to punish anyone who dares to dissent, colorado’s law — and others like it — are a clear and present danger to every American’s constitutionally protected freedoms and the very existence of a diverse and free nation. – Kristen Waggoner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At this hour, our democracy's under unprecedented assault, unlike anything we've seen in modern times. An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself, this is not dissent, it's disorder. It's chaos. It borders on sedition, and it must end now. I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When thousands of Cubans took to the streets in July, the Cuban government responded with a brutal strategy of repression designed to instill fear and suppress dissent, peaceful protesters and other critics have been systematically detained, held incommunicado and abused in horrendous conditions, and subjected to sham trials following patterns that indicate these human rights violations are not the actions of rogue agents. – Juan Pappier	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They have shown there's no rule of law, there's no possibility for citizens to legally, peacefully and orderly show their dissent to those power. – Garcia Aguilera	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Dissent in the ranks highlights how fractious relations are within the group, uAE is looking after its own interests, rather than toeing the line of core OPEC. – Matt Smith	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The dissent is correct that the Voting Rights Act exemplifies our country’s commitment to democracy, but there is nothing democratic about the dissent’s attempt to bring about a wholesale transfer of the authority to set voting rules from the States to the federal courts. – Samuel Alito	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. – Dwight D. Eisenhower	added by Normando 3 years ago
This was his way of misguided political dissent, he accepts the responsibility. – Samuel Stretton	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The dissent has the better of the legal argument. – Scott Applewhite -RRB- Barrett	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else. – H. L. Mencken	added by Normando 4 years ago
These women are victims of an escalating crackdown on the right to freedom of expression and criminalization of dissent. Instead of persecuting them, the Zimbabwean authorities should focus their efforts on holding those suspected to be responsible for their horrifying abduction, torture and sexual assault to account. – Muleya Mwananyanda	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Though Bose felt conflicted by the gap between what Japan said it wanted to achieve for Asia and the reality, Though Bose friendships with the Japanese and citizenship made it impossible for Though Bose to dissent. – Takeshi Nakajima	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The government must end the persistent repression of dissent and the ongoing pattern of arbitrary arrests and refrain from criminalizing and attacking human rights defenders, political opponents and any other dissenting voices. – Rupert Colville	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are very concerned that these apparently trumped-up charges may constitute a renewed attempt to stifle dissent. – Rupert Colville	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter’s claim.... We have alternatives to violence.

– Abe Fortas

added by Normando
6 months ago

We have made multiple good faith attempts to find common ground so we could see this critical piece of information. Unfortunately, Secretary Blinken has refused to provide the Dissent Cable and his response to the cable, forcing me to issue my first subpoena as chairman of this committee.

– Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m not expecting that we will see a lot of dissent in terms of votes, i think where we might see it is how they color the data that they’re seeing.

– Ellen Meade

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our country has a strong historical commitment to free and open debate and to protect the ability of those who dissent from the government’s view to express their own opinions. We have no doubt that courts will see this unconstitutional law for what it is and strike it down.

– Jenin Younes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This latest revelation proves the CDC is rolling full steam ahead with their censorship campaign against citizens who speak up, this new scheme to use taxpayer money – intended to further scientific inquiry – to instead stifle researchers and anyone who dares dissent from the Biden administration's ever-changing COVID narrative is unsurprising and unacceptable.

– Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent. And they must give it the respect and the latitude which they claim for themselves.

– Abe Fortas

added by Normando
2 years ago

I'm sure if the court reverses the lower court decisions, there will be a dissent arguing that they should have upheld the decisions. So, it could be a fragmented court, but the majority might be split between people who say diversity is not compelling and people who say, ‘Wait, we still want to recognize that it’s compelling, but we don't believe Harvard or North Carolina offered sufficient evidence that the programs were necessary,'.

– Rachel Moran

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Inside the kingdom, the social and economic reforms that are strongly popular with the next generation of Saudis continue to move forward in important ways, and the old ways of thinking grounded in a conservative interpretation of Islam are being pushed further to the sidelines, nevertheless, Saudi Arabia remains an absolute monarchy intolerant of a diversity of views, and it still takes troubling measures to stifle dissent. It has a lot of work to do in respecting basic human rights and freedoms including religious freedom.

– Brian Katulis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

How does the dissent account for the fact that one of the mass shootings near the top of its list took place in Buffalo ? The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop the perpetrator.

– Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think there's a good chance this is going to go up to the Court next term, that's partly why this dissent was short and the other justices didn't say anything, because they see this coming.

– Berin Szoka

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Colorado has weaponized its law to silence speech it disagrees with, to compel speech it approves of, and to punish anyone who dares to dissent, colorado’s law — and others like it — are a clear and present danger to every American’s constitutionally protected freedoms and the very existence of a diverse and free nation.

– Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At this hour, our democracy's under unprecedented assault, unlike anything we've seen in modern times. An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself, this is not dissent, it's disorder. It's chaos. It borders on sedition, and it must end now. I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When thousands of Cubans took to the streets in July, the Cuban government responded with a brutal strategy of repression designed to instill fear and suppress dissent, peaceful protesters and other critics have been systematically detained, held incommunicado and abused in horrendous conditions, and subjected to sham trials following patterns that indicate these human rights violations are not the actions of rogue agents.

– Juan Pappier

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They have shown there's no rule of law, there's no possibility for citizens to legally, peacefully and orderly show their dissent to those power.

– Garcia Aguilera

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Dissent in the ranks highlights how fractious relations are within the group, uAE is looking after its own interests, rather than toeing the line of core OPEC.

– Matt Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The dissent is correct that the Voting Rights Act exemplifies our country’s commitment to democracy, but there is nothing democratic about the dissent’s attempt to bring about a wholesale transfer of the authority to set voting rules from the States to the federal courts.

– Samuel Alito

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

added by Normando
3 years ago

This was his way of misguided political dissent, he accepts the responsibility.

– Samuel Stretton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The dissent has the better of the legal argument.

– Scott Applewhite -RRB- Barrett

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.

– H. L. Mencken

added by Normando
4 years ago

These women are victims of an escalating crackdown on the right to freedom of expression and criminalization of dissent. Instead of persecuting them, the Zimbabwean authorities should focus their efforts on holding those suspected to be responsible for their horrifying abduction, torture and sexual assault to account.

– Muleya Mwananyanda

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Though Bose felt conflicted by the gap between what Japan said it wanted to achieve for Asia and the reality, Though Bose friendships with the Japanese and citizenship made it impossible for Though Bose to dissent.

– Takeshi Nakajima

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The government must end the persistent repression of dissent and the ongoing pattern of arbitrary arrests and refrain from criminalizing and attacking human rights defenders, political opponents and any other dissenting voices.

– Rupert Colville

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are very concerned that these apparently trumped-up charges may constitute a renewed attempt to stifle dissent.

– Rupert Colville

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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