Jane Fonda

So it's really, really important.

Well, it's the cornerstone of democracy.

It's also the cornerstone of art.

I mean, you can't have art if you don't have free expression.

But the First Amendment isn't just free speech.

It's the five freedoms.

It's freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom to protest.

And that means for anybody.

You know, we have to recognize that a far right winger has all those same rights.

And if you really believe in the First Amendment, you have to support her or his right, even if you don't agree with it.

That's the strength of it.

This is a nonpartisan issue.

As I said on The Colbert Show, this is not a question of left or right.

It's a question of right or wrong.

The big problem now is that the right has taken over all the media.

They have their own media, and they've been very, very smart in taking over the new media.

And so we have to become ubiquitous to the extent that we can.

Back in the 70s and 80s, the 60s and 70s, that wasn't the case.

And because we didn't have phones, we didn't have, you know, we didn't have this.

We had to talk to people.