Family Fun Simply Gifted Expectant Fathers More Topics . . . Not Indexed Banned Books Week is sponsored each year by American Booksellers Association and co-sponsored by the American Libraries Association to help us improve our awareness of censorship. Here you will find some very special quotes about censorship and by authors who have been victims of those who would censor them. If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Free speech is life itself.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. Only the suppressed word is dangerous. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.