Quotation Explorer - 'Controversial'

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me. - Oscar Levant
With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face. - Nadeem Farooq Paracha
How controversial is for one to deny that men aren't from space while the Earth itself is in space? - Marcus L. Lukusa
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. - Jane Smiley
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