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Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Langston Hughes

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

Kathy Acker

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Famous Censorship Authors

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Richard King

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Sam Sheppard

Henry Louis Gates

Potter Stewart

Federico Fellini

Steven Spielberg

John Perry Barlow

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All Censorship Quotes

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

Richard King

74% of people like this quote

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Langston Hughes

65% of people like this quote

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

64% of people like this quote

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

Kathy Acker

60% of people like this quote

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci

59% of people like this quote

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Steven Spielberg

58% of people like this quote

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Harry A. Blackmun

58% of people like this quote

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

57% of people like this quote

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

Tracey Emin

57% of people like this quote

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

Joichi Ito

57% of people like this quote