Censorship Quote by Paul Goodman

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

— Alan Dershowitz

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

— Mason Cooley

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

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

— Dorothy Richardson

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

— Frederick Douglass

In most Western democracies, you do have the freedom of speech. But freedom of speech is not an entitlement to reach. You are free…

— Christopher Wylie

Government censorship of speech with which it disagrees not only violates the First Amendment, but is antithetical to the American system, which posits that…

— Bill Hagerty

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

— Laura Loomer

As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech…

— John Paul Stevens

“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless,’” Arundhati Roy has said. “There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

— Alexandra Fuller