Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed

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

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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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[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul… – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897 [characte

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A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read. – Robertson Davies

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