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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Born: Nov 20, 1923

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Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all. Lois Lowry
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. Henry Rollins
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