Ava DuVernay

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.

American Director

Shonda Rhimes

You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who don't look like me in my writers room. I think it's important to have a group of voices, of people who can dissent.

American Producer

Pete Seeger

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

American Musician

Roseanne Barr

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

American Actress

Gary Hamel

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

American Businessman

Michael Servetus

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

Spanish Scientist

Neal Katyal

Institutionalizing dissent in our agencies moves us toward a healthier democracy and helps fulfill our founders' vision.

American Lawyer

Jacob Bronowski

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

English Scientist

David Harsanyi

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

American Journalist

Natan Sharansky

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

Russian Writer

Use 'dissent' to show personal opinion diverging from a group norm or authority.

Expressing Individuality

'Dissent' can imply careful thought, not simply being contrary.

Not Just Opposition

'Dissent' is a gentler, less confrontational way of disagreeing.

Subtle Disagreement

'Dissent' as a noun involves a group dynamic and often leads to discussion or debate.

More Than Personal

Using 'dissent' indicates a thoughtful disagreement, not an emotional outburst.

Measured Disagreement

'Dissent' is often used in the context of activism or social change.

Social Movements

In legal contexts, 'dissent' reflects a judge's different legal interpretation.

Legal Decision-Making

A legal 'dissent' may influence future cases and even change the law.

Important for Precedent

Legal 'dissent' is a structured argument, not just a simple contradiction.

Not Just Disagreement

 are seeking to use the law to either weaken or outright ban strong encryption, because the bad guys are using it, too. We have got to fight for the right of citizens to use strong encryption. Otherwise, dissent and investigative journalism are going to become even more difficult

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 were notorious for arresting protesters in silencing all dissent being a photojournalist I photograph this scene and I was afraid for the safety of these kids as I was shooting and I asked them is that ok to reveal your identities because once we publish this everyone

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 Surround yourself with people who challenge you, and create a culture that actively encourages dissent. Some banks suffered from groupthink, where staff were too afraid to challenge management's lending decisions, contributing to the financial crisis.

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 people to high taxation and showed little tolerance for dissent chin outlived numerous assassination attempts and was quite paranoid about revolution he may have thought these threats would follow him into the afterlife the army

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 Our best weapon is sunlight. Dostoevsky wrote that the whole work of man is to prove he's a man and not a piano key. Over and over throughout history, people in power have used fear to silence the truth and to silence dissent.

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 and the truth is whatever the party says. And what O'Brien knows is that once this thought is accepted, critical dissent is impossible. You can't speak truth to power if the power speaks truth by definition.

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 that fueled social inequalities all contributed to the dissent. Ultimately, French society permanently ousted their monarchy and replaced it with a republic. Another characteristic found in revolutions

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 and he had a very interesting dissent. It's interesting because he rejected the Aristotelian premise underlying the majority's opinion. He said it's not possible to determine the essential nature

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 Get used to it. And this we can say without a single word. Fashion can give us a language for dissent. It can give us courage. Fashion can let us literally wear our courage on our sleeves.

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 and he had a very interesting dissent it's interesting because he rejected the Aristotelian premise underlying the majority's opinion he said it's not