For these reasons this book is written in a style which discusses known facts with the popular and unpopular beliefs they have in-spired.

She defended every American's "right to criticize...right to hold unpopular beliefs...right to protest; the right of independent thought."

The essence of a democratic society, Mill argued in "On Liberty," is the right of its citizens to express unpopular beliefs, unfettered by "the moral coercion of public opinion."

The courts have reviewed other cases in which applicants for the bar have been rejected because of unpopular beliefs or because they refused to swear allegiance to a particular political value system.

Another category she characterized as people who had definite and unpopular beliefs that they kept to themselves for fear of the consequences of speaking out.

"In the world we live in, with the kind of media concentration we have, the only way that unpopular beliefs can be aired sometimes is if the monopoly vehicle agrees to accept an ad."

The Royal Society was steadfast in its unpopular belief that science could only move forward through a transparent and open exchange of ideas backed by experimental evidence.

How and why they two were in accord in they unpopular belief in the significance of the Red Star Lessa did not know.

But I signed the letter because I believe that people should not be discriminated against as a matter of government policy for holding unpopular beliefs.

In this country, sedition laws have historically been used to prosecute those with unpopular political beliefs.