If you read a newspaper daily, then you will enjoy quotations on the First Amendment:

“Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” — W.E.B. Du Bois, author, historian, 1905

“The newspaper industry needs and wants to be more diverse.” — Mary Kay Blake, Newseum, 2007

“Each one of you who forsakes your role in keeping democracy alive by either inaction or, perhaps worse, by action based on ignorance, threatens all the rest of us. So, read a newspaper and build a community.” — Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., publisher, New York Times, 2006

“Protected by the Constitution as the guardian of the public interest, the news media are not regarded by most Americans as dedicated to the public interest as they strive for circulation, ratings and profits.” — Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst, National Public Radio

“Upon the great religious or political question, the opinion of the dullest head in the world is worth the same as the opinion of the brightest head in the world — a brass farthing.” — Mark Twain, writer, humorist, 1907

“Faith and truth are among the most commonly used and least understood terms in American culture.” — Francis Dominic Degnin, assistant professor, University of Northern Iowa, 2007

“When people seek freedom, they are always impatient.” — Ralph J. Bunche, diplomat, 1960

“Intellectual freedom, of course, implies intellectual diversity.” — Frances FitzGerald, author, 2007

“In a world without truth, freedom loses its foundation and people are exposed to the violence of passion and to manipulation, both open and hidden.” — Pope John Paul II, 1991

— Quotes from First Amendment Calendar, produced by the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, 2009