At the beginning of the twenty-first century, a new status quo emerged in which the textbook industry and the major adoption states became comfortable with one another. They shared the same bias guidelines, which quieted the critics, left and right. Feminists were happy, because the publishers had accepted a nonsexist language code. Ethnic and cultural […]
Censorship Quotes
Dear Sir, – I am greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for adults exclusively, and it always distresses me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this […]
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons.
Opium and morphine are certainly dangerous, habit-forming drugs. But once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments… Is not the harm a man can inflict on his mind and soul even more disastrous […]
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.
I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book.
Throughout the history of this country there have been incidents where military situations have existed that have led governments to talk to members of the media and make an editorial request of them that they delay for some period disclosing some piece of information, it is not against our history, it is not against our […]
It’s hard to keep a straight face while crying “censorship” in 21st century America – with its cheap and widespread Internet access, tiny percentage of state-owned media, and hundreds of thousands of media jobs… Yes, but I’m talking more about self-censorship,” one editor told me (before he stopped running my columns). Well, sure. It must […]
