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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Salman Rushdie
Freedom, Games, Speech
Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', archive.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

Salman Rushdie
Freedom, Rejects
Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.146, Macmillan

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

Salman Rushdie
Freedom, Struggle, Doe
Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is ‘Freedom is indivisible. You can’t slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hebdo … but the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.

Salman Rushdie
Freedom, Mind, Three
"Salman Rushdie: Don’t blame Charlie Hebdo - free speech ‘indivisible’ or not at all" by Cheryl K. Chumley, www.washingtontimes.com. January 15, 2015.

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