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, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.Edward R. Murrow
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.Barbara Ehrenreich
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With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.Ava DuVernay
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.Linda Sarsour
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Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.Mehbooba Mufti
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A dissent is the opportunity for the justices to express their differing views with respect to what the majority has done.Ketanji Brown Jackson
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If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.Bob Ehrlich
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Passionate dissent from the will of the multitude should be respected, not derided.Howard Jacobson
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Startup India is welcome for the economy, but it cannot be accompanied by 'Shut Up India' in society. What gives Startup India its strength is freedom of expression, thought, and dissent. You choke this, and you choke entrepreneurship.Rahul Gandhi
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.Banksy
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Only when emotion is involved do you get angry and lose your temper. You could have different points of view, but as long as it is constructive dissent, it is fun.Kumar Mangalam Birla
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When a government is in fear of dissent from its own citizens, and when its reaction is to shut out that dissent, we should all worry.Rohini Nilekani
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Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.Richard N. Haass
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In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.Norman Davies
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There are actually many justices in history who have used the dissent mechanism to discuss the law in ways that others find over time to be more persuasive.Ketanji Brown Jackson
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The United States' flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is restored.Bob Menendez
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Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.Michael Servetus
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Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.Robert Jackson
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.Adam Grant
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I think I'm a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of their gender, caste, class, socio-economic strata, disabilities, political stance, religion or faith.Sayani Gupta
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A circuit judge might properly encourage the Supreme Court to reconsider holdings that are confusing or otherwise problematic in application, by pointing out a problem with the interpretation or application of a precedent, in either a concurrence or a dissent.Ketanji Brown Jackson
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.Laura Schlessinger
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That's what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends - ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance.Mary L. Trump
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I tell my students that the single most powerful thing that we have in this country - something that literally harbors no dissent and no questioning - is the all-powerful elite narrative.James Carville
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.Ferdinand Marcos
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Technology is a tool, and it's a platform. Nobody gets arrested for being a blogger; people get arrested for dissent. Nobody gets arrested for putting information about themselves online; they get arrested for being an activist. I'm a strong believer in the fact that you should not blame the tools; you should blame the circumstances.Jared Cohen
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Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get punished.Nasser Hussain
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Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.Gary Hamel
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Dissent in art is a fundamental right. But if it is dissent about a book, a piece of art, and if you don't like it, you have the right to express your views outside the theatre, but you cannot create a law and order situation. Then the state has to step in.Shabana Azmi
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Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.Jim Walton
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You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.Michael Steele
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.Jacob Bronowski
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Steve Jobs is considered an amazing genius and made billions of dollars. Sure, we overlook that he didn't pay his share of taxes and didn't believe in charity. But other than these occasional rumblings of dissent, he is pretty much held in high esteem.Tom Green
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You either 'get it' or you don't. Worrying about dissent only waters the product down; I'm a hard taskmaster, I take my job seriously, and as a creative, detail is key.Liza Tarbuck
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If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.Stephen Kinzer
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The Chinese government has been clear in its goal and purpose for creating and expanding Confucius Institutes throughout the country, namely to distort academic discourse on China, threaten and silence defenders of human rights, and create a climate intolerant of dissent or open discussion.Seth Moulton
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.Gore Vidal
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Ability to disseminate one's ideas on the Internet is now a sine qua non of inclusion in the global public sphere. However, the Internet is not a true public sphere; it is a public sphere erected on private property, what I have dubbed a 'quasi-public sphere,' where the property owners can sideline and constrain dissent.Zeynep Tufekci
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This is America. Dissenting voices will continue to voice their dissent. Because they've read the operating instructions for the United States of America, and it's their right.Rick Santelli
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