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Kathy Acker

"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."

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"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."

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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."

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"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."

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"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."

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"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."

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"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."

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"I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship."

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"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."

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"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."

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Donna Grant

"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."

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"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."

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"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
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"Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive."
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