When it comes to the question of free speech, the Greeks said it best. “Parrhesia” or “uninhibited speech” means to speak freely or frankly. Euripides the dramatist, below, depicts Athens as a place where free males can speak freely on public affairs. In his play The Phoenician Women he says: “This is slavery: not to speak one’s thought.”
This is the most fundamental aspect of the question of free speech: it is freedom of thought. And that entails the freedom literally to speak our mind.
