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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Dissent Hire People Risk Run You

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The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.

~Alec Baldwin

Topics: Abuse Dissent Had Married Opinion Own Say Someone Thing Were Whom You Your I Can

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Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

~Amal Clooney

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As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.

~Andrew Breitbart

Topics: Censorship Democratic Dissent Hollywood Liberal Long Players Politicians Stifle Supported Tool Useful

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A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.

~Antonin Scalia

Topics: Dissent Good Honest Keeps You

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With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: About Black Community Dismantle Dissent Focus Folks Go Homes Hoping Humanity Inside Lives Lot Matter Means Movement Notion Outside People Protest Public Really Same Saying You

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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

~Banksy

Topics: Been Dissent Extra History Revolutions Start Stop Used Wars

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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: All-Around Dissent Duty Matter Often Patriotism Patriots Rebellion Refuge Remain Too True

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The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

~Bernadine Dohrn

Topics: Along Aspects Comfortable Compliance Dissent Encourage Fundamental Gloss Going Ignore Indecent Over Patriotism Sanction Those Too Unacceptable

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Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

~Bill Keller

Topics: Deviation Discipline Dissent Liberation Movements Operating Punish Suspicion Thrive

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