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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as inde

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

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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a persons mind. – Rebecca West

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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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We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue – D.W. (David Wark) Griffith

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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle

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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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