I read a quote today from J.P.Scott: “Facts are sacred, opinion is free.”

I have a strong philosophical problem with this statement, as context can change everything…. What are facts? Can they be trusted, much less called sacred? Whose point of view created or named something a FACT? How is it that the priviledge few who record ‘facts’ in books and publish them can be said to write history?

I’d like to say that I can revise that quote, but after hours of pondering I have only come up with this inadequate idea:
“truth is sacred; facts are fiction, opinion is the interpretation of fact divided by context.”

thoughts?