I would rather die standing than live kneeling
When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.
Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.
So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.
We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.
I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.
A drawing has never killed anyone.
I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees.