“Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.” YearsChildrenTwoIdeasStatesIndividualForceReligiousAtheismCitizensEnlightenmentHundredConscienceYears AgoRoseTyrannyPursueCensorshipArrogantCoercionPiousBureaucratsClergy Author:Sherwin Wine
“There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.” ArtBookBodyFilmForceReligiousPressureCensorshipZealot Author:John Boorman
“Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.” ChristianLawPoliticalCultureReadingReligiousBordersCensorshipBiasQuotingPolitical Culture Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
“If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.” IfsChristianFormHateReligiousExpressionCensorship Author:F. LaGard Smith
“Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.” Has BeensChristianReligiousSpeechCensorshipTextbooksHistory Textbooks Author:James G. Watt