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• Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Sight, Giving

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• Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Book, Ignorance, Ideas

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.285, Best Books on

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• Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

  Heinrich Heine

  Reading, Book, Evil

  Almansor: A Tragedy l. 245 (1823)

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• A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

  Granville Hicks

  Men, Thinking, Liberty

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• Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, Father, Ignorance

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• The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Baby, Men, Principles

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.206, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Book, Blood, Purpose

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Discovery, Freedom Of Speech, Censorship In Books

  Charles Bradlaugh's speech at Hall of Science (circa 1880), as quoted in Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Lying, Book, Thinking

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

  William O. Douglas

  Teaching, Rights In America, Political Revolution

  "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

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• Every burned book enlightens the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, World, Censorship

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• Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Thinking Of You, Knowledge

  Voltaire (1762). “Works”, p.114

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• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Imagination, Forever

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Education, Running, Fear

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Relationship, Freedom

  Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Freedom Of Speech, Library

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• [I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

  Judy Blume

  Real, Book, Fire

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Oct 18, 2013

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• Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, House, Atheism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Media, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Book, People

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Book, Ideas, Jail

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Printed Books, Printed Word, Offending

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “Autobiographical writings”

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Censorship, Logical

  "Literary Censorship in England". Current Opinion, Volume 55, No. 5 (p. 378), November 1913.

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