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• The only way to ensure that you and those you agree with have the right to speak is to support the right to speak of those you despise or do not like - the people with whom you do not agree.

  Pamela Wallin

  People, Support, Way

  Speech at the Senate on Erosion of Freedom of Speech, sencanada.ca. March 30, 2010.

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• I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Literature, Fields

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• Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Mass Destruction, Silence, Weapons

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• Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.

  Curtis White

  Selfish, Government, Names

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• An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

  Salman Rushdie

  Stories, Crime, Ability

  "Salman Rushdie Discusses The Role Of The Novel In The Era Of 24-Hour News In Talk At CU-Boulder" by Joe Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

  Eric Schmidt

  Google, Want, Firsts

  "Google CEO On Privacy". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

  Ai Weiwei

  Quiet Voice, People, Tree

  "China's censorship can never defeat the internet" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2012.

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• For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

  John Milton

  Life, Book, Soul

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thoughtful, People, Feminist

  "And our flag was still there" by Barbara Kingsolver, www.sfgate.com. September 25, 2001.

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• Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Book, White

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.43, Random House

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• London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Moving, Naked, Actors

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• We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

  Gerald Nicosia

  People, Eras, Patriot

  "50 years later, 'Howl' still resonates". www.today.com. October 6, 2005.

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• We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

  Glenn Miller

  People, Mind, Messages

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• If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

  Dan Gillmor

  Domain, Knows, Direct

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• I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.

  Juan Williams

  Education, Uncles, America

  "Rutgers rage against Rice -- why do liberals have so much hate for black conservatives?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2014.

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• I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ

  "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, 1992.

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• Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.

  Greg Lukianoff

  College, Expression, Ideas

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• And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

  Tom Lehrer

  Expression, Jail, Certain

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2006.

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• I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use the F word when necessary, but there are words I won't use, mainly because I don't like them. I don't write about body parts when I write about sex. It's not about the physiological, it's more important for teens to read about the emotional aspects. I do think there are times when self-censorship is important.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sex, Writing, Emotional

  Source: ncac.org

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• Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

  Storm Jameson

  Sadistic, Form, Traps

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.70, A&C Black

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• To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.

  Storm Jameson

  Eye, Risk, Mind

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.67, A&C Black

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• perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Home, Men, Sheep

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• The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Religion, Democracy, Principles

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• Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Say Anything, Able, Should

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

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• It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Communication, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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