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 flyingrose rated 15 months ago - A sampling of the fine quotes with many more. From the page: "Censorship Quotes
" If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job."
-- John Berry, Iii, Library Journal, October 1999
"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no ...
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- biglouie1959 rated 10 days ago
- some great quotes from great people on censorship
- eddi3 rated 3 months ago
- A good collection of quotes. It is very true that without freedom of speech, or even limited free speech, we cannot be free.
- babychicke rated 6 weeks ago
- Go to what on earth .com, they have an I Read Banned Books bracelet. It' s really cool, and it just about asserts your position on censorship.
- cx2i3 rated 3 months ago
- If a book hasn't been banned, burned, challenged, or denounced, does it really deserve to be called a book? Such an oeuvre, should it exist, would be nothing but mindless pap that should be burned... wait a second... crap.
- frietje344 rated 4 months ago
- from the page: You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken - unspeakable! - fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse - a little tiny mouse! -of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."
-- Winston Churchill---
READ this site :) !!!
- Becksly rated 3 months ago
- I really, really, REALLY HATE censorship, even if it is about things that no one should waste their time with. Why can't Paris Hilton or semi-automatic weapons get banned? Preferably both.
- warby rated 3 months ago
- "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'?"
- julieann081 rated 3 months ago
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
-- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
- luxquarta rated 4 months ago
- Read, read and ... read
- Bhagwad rated 5 months ago
- I love the different ways people have of saying great stuff. It means that they really have insight
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