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So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
Jim Hightower
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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.


Peter Ustinov
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I try to act out of faith.


Marian Wright Edelman
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.


Howard Zinn
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.


Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.


Hubert H. Humphrey
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
John Ensign
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
Harvey Fierstein
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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.


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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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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.


Terry Tempest Williams
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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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All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.
Jeff Miller
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
Yair Lapid
In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.
Ismail Haniyeh
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.
Joe Rogan
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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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