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“Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.”

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Aryeh Neier

Aryeh Neier, born in 1937, is a prominent figure in the human rights and democratic movements. His life and contributions have had a widespread impact in the field of human rights. more

“To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.”

Children Hands Care Political Parent Freedom Taken Thrown Gang Upbringing Irresponsible Quacks Unintelligent

Author:H. L. Mencken

“It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.”

Children Ideas Feelings Political Father Parent Freedom Common Educated Instance Shock Tolerate Infant Political Freedom Compulsory Education

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papers

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papers

“We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.”

Doe States Body Political Individual Freedom Conditions Constitution Minors Intrusion

Author:William J. Brennan

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