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Quote by Walt Whitman
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. - Walt Whitman

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. – Walt Whitman

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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies. – William O. Douglas

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To reject the word is to reject the human search. – Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging

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One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed. – Edgar Dale

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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. – Dick Cavett

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