Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, states that:
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
George Orwell Animal Farm:
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall on Voltaire’ beliefs:
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”