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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

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To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Only the nonreader fears books. ↗

— Richard Peck

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To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvétius

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All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

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Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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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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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers? ↗

— Juvenal

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