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Salman Rushdie on Freedom

born 1947 India

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Imaginary Homelands p. 391 (1992)

Two things form the bedrock of any open society—freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

Reprehensible ideas don’t disappear if you make them illegal, by driving them under the carpet you might feed them, or make them taboo ... I’d rather know the racist in the room.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Salman Rushdie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.