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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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You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 1988 October 3rd

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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West

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Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters — because girls can read as well as boys — reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? – Mervyn Griffith-Jones

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The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. – Tommy Smothers

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