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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
~ Marian Wright Edelman

The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t have steak.
~ Robert Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon

Did you ever hear anyone say, “That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?”
~ Joseph Henry Jackson

Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
~ Potter Stewart

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

~ Henry Steele Commager

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

~ Federico Fellini

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.
~ Marilyn Monroe

If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Update:
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

~ John Steinbeck