Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.
Margaret A. EdwardsTags: love censorship freedom-of-thought freedom-of-choice freedom-of-speech young-adult censor lovers teenagers teens freedom-of-expression lover rites-of-passage young-adult-literature censors teen teen-fantasy young-adult-fiction young-love young-adult-novels rite-of-passage censoring love-story young-adult-readers teenagers-and-parents teenage-love teen-fiction young-adult-fantasy young-adult-romance young-adult-urban-fantasy lovers-fictional young-lovers freedom-to-express minors-rights
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
Ice-TTags: censorship metaphor controversy racism rap
If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them."
[Bangor Daily News, Guest Column of March 20, 1992]
Tags: censorship freedom-of-speech banned-books challenged-books
I've been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it should even have been written. Some of the women have expressed more - disgust and anger. What are they saying? They'd prefer not to know, not to understand? They'd prefer certain areas of life to be censored? Isn't that partly what breeds the Sutcliffes and the Nilsens?
Antony SherTags: censorship
In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [Master and Margarita] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains - editing, and it's going to be hard. I will have to pay close attention to details. Maybe even re-write some things... 'What's its future?' you ask? I don't know. Possibly, you will store the manuscript in one of the drawers, next to my 'killed' plays, and occasionally it will be in your thoughts. Then again, you don't know the future. My own judgement of the book is already made and I think it truly deserves being hidden away in the darkness of some chest.
[Bulgakov from Moscow to his wife on June 15 1938]
Tags: writing censorship letter russia writing-process master-and-margarita samizdat
On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don’t know who believes that anymore. Every left wing party says there should be some degree of censorship, that some things are bad taste. But it’s unjustifiable for anyone to decide what is bad taste.
Richey EdwardsTags: censorship
The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.
William GoldingTags: religion censorship crucifixion
For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)
Margaret BaldTags: censorship
Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)
Margaret BaldTags: censorship
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: censorship freedom-of-speech bigotry martyrdom twitter
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