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It's important because it's a way to express what your opinion is and what your thoughts and feelings are.

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Especially for students, I feel its a great benefit for not only adults to have freedom of speech but students as well. Either it be a pro and con to a situation, people are going to have an opinion. Respect it or not everyone has an opinion. And its important to either understand or let it go

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It is important to express your opinion until the point of it hurting others. At that point you are not stressing your freedom of speech, you’re  explicitly derogatory

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Hearing different perspectives might change your own into a more accurate one or help you support your own.

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Because for the first amendment to stay true, all people should have the right to voice their opinion. We can completely disagree with them but that person still believes in their heart that's the truth, no matter idoitic it may be. If we take away the right of speech for even one person, it should be taken from everybody. Or everyone gets it equally.

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Free Speech is important because your opinion will not always be the one that is popular, and in those times you will want the protection on the first amendment.

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Because everyone should have the right to share their opinion and we should all respect each other’s opinions.

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So people can give there own opinion and also there own voice so other can hear

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Expressing your opinions, views, etc. is a human right. You can’t take away someone’s opinions just by making them unheard. That makes no sense, I apologize

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Because that's the first amendment EVERYONE has a right to freedom of speech 

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Because that's the first amendment EVERYONE has a right to freedom of speech 

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So they can express their own opinions

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It’s important to have freedom of speech because it’s important to hear people thought especially cause we can’t ban people from talking we can restrict on things they talk about but we are still allowed to have a word.

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To get everyone’s view. So everyone has a voice in a democracy.

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So they can share their opinion

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Because evryone should be allowed to express themselves