Danielle Hollister, BellaOnline’s Quotations Editor, has assembled a fine collection of Censorship Quotations.
“If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas.”
–Graceanne A. Decandido
Granville Hicks
“The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be… Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.”
–Granville Hicks
Anybody know what that’s from? I was curious about the “…” and wondering if he expounded on his idea of disapproval.
The only thing I’ve been able to find so far is that he was a Communist who tried to stop an Ayn Rand book from being published.
Will Manley
“In public we preach full access; in private we censor.
We get away with this because we call our censorship “selection””.
Are We Free to Talk Honestly About Intellectual Freedom? American Libraries 10/97)