my feelings about censorship may be summed up in the following statements by various writers, educators and humanitarians:
"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
-Potter Stewart
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
-John Morley
"Only the suppressed word is dangerous."
-Ludwig Börne
"If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero."
-Voltaire
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom.
-Alfred Whitney Essays on Education
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."
-Heinrich Heine
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
-Noam Chomsky
"I may not agree with what a man has to say, but I will defend to the death his right to say it."
Voltaire