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Censorship Quotes
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The paper burns, but the words fly away. (Quote by - Akiba ben Joseph)
Government censorship can slow down, but can't reverse this trend. (Quote by - Xiao Qiang)
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
The immigration laws should not be used as instruments of censorship. The State Department should not be deciding which ideas Americans hear and which they do not. (Quote by - Jameel Jaffer)
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
The most common examples of book censorship are in schools and public libraries, and all those examples are most often involving children's literature. Political groups attempt to remove books from library shelves because those books use 'naughty' words, do not have happy endings... or because they have too many rainbows. Rainbows are considered a sign of 'New Age' religiosity. Little Red Riding Hood was the 24th most banned book in the early 90's mostly because she had a bottle of wine in her basket. Many organizations demanded a non (Quote by - alcohol Little Red. They were successful sometimes in their efforts, by the way. (Quote by - Herbert Foerstel)
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. (Quote by - Henry Steele Commager)
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. (Quote by - Abbott Joseph Liebling, Do You Belong in Journalism? New Yorker, 4 May 1960)
Did you ever hear anyone say, That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me? (Quote by - Joseph Henry Jackson)
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. (Quote by - Walter Cronkite, 1980)
If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas. (Quote by - Graceanne A. Decandido)
It's a form of censorship in its crudest and rudest form. (Quote by - Matthew Aid)
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives . . . Censorship for us begins at the color line. (Quote by - Langston Hughes)
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by your government's harassment and censorship of journalists,. (Quote by - Ann Cooper)
The idea that immigration law is being used as a tool of censorship is unacceptable. By regulating speech at our borders, we are sending the wrong message to the world. We must not have a double standard regarding the freedom of speech and dissent. That is one of the strengths of our democracy. (Quote by - Caroline Fredrickson)