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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: free-speech
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    “The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.”
    ― Henry Steele Commager
    tags: banned-books, censorship, freedom-of-speech, intellectual-freedom
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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    Lillian Hellman
    “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
    ― Lillian Hellman
    tags: integrity
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    Holbrook Jackson
    “Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.”
    ― Holbrook Jackson
    tags: censorship
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    “Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.”
    ― Robert H. Jackson
    tags: censorship
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
    ― Lyndon Baines Johnson
    tags: bigotry
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    Juvenal
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?”
    ― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
    tags: censorship
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

    [Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: america, censorship, democracy, freedom-of-thought, marketplace-of-ideas, media, news, openness, secrecy, truthfulness, values
    223 likes

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    Golda Meir
    “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
    ― Golda Meir, My Life
    tags: censorship, history, orwellian, past, present
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    Harry Truman
    “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

    [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: censorship, dissent, freedom-of-speech, opposition, politics, repression
    729 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “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 -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: censorship, education, free-speech, paraphrased
    471 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Bruce Lee
    “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice, bruce-lee, inspirational
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