#censor

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I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.


Harrison Salisbury


#agricultural #because #cable #censors #confirm

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.


Richard King


#ideas #images #words #wrong

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.


Potter Stewart


#confidence #itself #lack #reflects #society

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.


United Nations


#censorship #communication #encroachment #freedom-of-opinion #freedom-of-speech

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.


V.T. Davy


#censor #channel #crime #detective #edit

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.


John Barton


#censor #curiosity #diverse #does #empathy

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!


Kurt Vonnegut


#education #free-speech #paraphrased #death

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...


Dwight D. Eisenhower


#censorship #freedom #libraries #reading #thought

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]


Harry S. Truman


#dissent #freedom-of-speech #opposition #politics #repression

Books can not 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. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#books #censorship #freedom #freedom