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Censorship Quotes
"Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor."
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Sigmund Freud
"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind"
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James Baldwin
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"
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Joseph Stalin
"We change people through conversation, not through censorship"
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Jay Z
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost"
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Thomas Jefferson
"A free press can of course be good or bad, but it is certain that without freedom it will never be anything but bad."
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Albert Camus
"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"
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Joseph Stalin
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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Oscar Wilde
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter"
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George Washington
"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"
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John F. Kennedy
"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."
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Hannah Arendt
"Manuscripts don't burn."
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Mikhail Bulgakov
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them"
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Ray Bradbury
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist"
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Salman Rushdie