|
"There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house"
~ John Stuart Mill (1869) |
| "Read,
every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one
else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to
do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." ~ Christopher
Morley |
| "You can cage the singer but not the song."
~ Harry Belafonte |
| "Censorship,
like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."
~ Clare Booth Luce |
| "Our lives begin to end the
day we become silent about things that matter" ~ Martin Luther King Jr. |
| “The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke |
| "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well
as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread."
~ Anatole France |
| "They can't censor
the gleam in my eye." ~ Charles Laughton |
| "I
wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed
me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind
that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean." ~ Mark
Twain |
| "Assassination is the extreme
form of censorship." ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| "Right
now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films
right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's
very important." ~ Mae West |
| "A
censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to." ~ Granville
Hicks |
| "Feminism is more than an argument about
words. Or it is nothing." ~ Andrew Heenan |
|
"The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play
it is free will." ~ Jawaharlal Nehru |
| "I
am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of
someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."
~ Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Winner |
|
"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." ~ Horace (Seize
the day, put little trust in tomorrow.) |
| "When
you blame others, you give up your power to change." ~ Dr. Robert Anthony |
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I
am also looking for contributions for these pages - please send the words, who
said them - with as much detail as you can; why it was said, when, to whom ...
whatever you can. I always acknowledge any help
