1960s Quote by Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

— Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr

“Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side a gesture…

— Bell Hooks

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

— James G. Watt

“The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.”

— Annie Dillard

“Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. If our…

— Rebecca Solnit

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever…

— Salman Rushdie

As Paretsky detailed in her short memoir Writing in an Age of Silence (2007), early optimism buoyed by the civil rights movement of the…

— Sarah Weinman

“Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people.”

— Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

“Censorship thrives in silence; silence is its aim.”

— James LaRue

“They lived on the even tenor found advisable in the experience of old families of the Western world, brought up rather than brought out.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was Martin Luther King who said, ‘In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our…

— Ed West

Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.

— Frank Beddor