Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is the hallmark of an authoritarian regime..."
-- Justice Potter Stewart, dissenting Ginzberg v. United States
"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."
-- Harry S. Truman, message to Congress, August 8, 1950
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
-- Salman Rushdie
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
-- John Morley
"The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for an opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time."
-- Joseph Lewis, Voltaire: The Incomparable Infidel, 1929
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
-- Euripides, Greek tragic poet (480 or 485 B.C. - 406 B.C)
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
~Albert Camus
If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.
~Harold R. Medina
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
~David Ben-Gurion
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?"
-- Juvenal
"Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence."
-- Salman Rushdie
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