Quotes About Censorship

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.

Occasionally black parents have books such as Huckleberry Finn, which uses the word "nigger," removed from libraries or reading lists.812 Any whites who wanted to take a violently antiwhite writer such as LeRoi Jones off the shelves would be accused at least of censorship, if not of racism.

Charges of racism are not a form of debate; they are meant to silence debate. Accusations of racism are often transparent attempts to choke off honest discussion.

První sny dívek, které jsou zamilovány nejd?ív jen do lásky, bývají jako tolik v?cí na sv?t? tajemn?jší než tajemství zpov?dní! Nikdo se o nich nedozví, protože nejsou ješt? vymyšlena slova tak cudná a tak vášnivá zárov??.

But the American public never did, because Elizebeth wasn't allowed to speak.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

I will not kiss your fucking flag

So the Trustees of Ohio State were right in 1956 when they canned the English instructor for assigning Catcher in the Rye to his freshman class. They knew there is no qualitative difference between the kid who thinks it's funny to fart in chapel, and Che Guevara. They knew then Holden Caulfield would found SDS.

I want all the books on the shelves. I want the books with dinosaur words like nigger that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does.

Two or three people had gone to Limerick and bought 'The Country Girls.' The parish priest asked them to hand in the books, which they did, and he burnt them on the grounds of the church.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

There's a reason that whenever fascists come to power, the writers are among the first to go to jail.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

Mass protests often get books or films banned, but very few people take to the streets to challenge the right of the State to decide what we can read or watch - it's still someone else's problem.

We live in a society where people will watch erotic stuff and then pass comments on it.

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.

When a parent comes into school waving a book and saying, 'Take this book away. I don't like this book.' I won't say in all cases, but in many cases, that will not happen anymore. It has to go through a proper review board. The complaining parent will have to fill out a complaint, you know, put it in writing.