Dissent Quotes

“They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.”
― Glenn Greenwald

“He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.”
― Glenn Greenwald

“When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.”
― Glenn Greenwald

“Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that he had published in an obscure newspaper. This riposte referred to my opinions as ‘racist.’ I would obviously scorn to deny such an allegation on my own behalf. I would, rather, prefer to repudiate it on behalf of my former friend. He had known me for many years and cooperated with me on numerous projects, and I am quite confident that he would never have as a collaborator anyone he suspected of racial prejudice. But it does remind me, and not for the first time, that quarrels on the left have a tendency to become miniature treason trials, replete with all kinds of denunciation. There's a general tendency—not by any means confined to radicals but in some way specially associated with them—to believe that once the lowest motive for a dissenting position has been found, it must in some way be the real one.”
― Christopher Hitchens