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The September 2022 Quiz - How Do You Really Feel About Censorship? by Fran Joyce

Our September 2022 Quiz, “How Do You Really Feel About Censorship?” features quotes about censorship and the importance of the free exchange of ideas in society.

These are quotes from politicians, philosophers, Supreme Court Justices, authors, poets, activists, and educators from around the world.

Can you match the person to the correct quote? If the person listed in the word bank is responsible for more than one quote, there will be an asterisk* after their name.

Answers to the September 2022 Quiz can be found in the last article of this issue (“Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life – October 2022) or by following this link,

Word-bank

Dwight D. Eisenhower*            Heinrich Heine

Martin Luther King, Jr.            Alfred Whitney Griswold

Oscar Wilde                            Mark Twain                       

Ray Bradbury*                        George Orwell

Voltaire                                   Benjamin Franklin

Franklin Delano Roosevelt      Joseph Brodsky

Judy Blume                             Sigmund Freud

Thomas Jefferson                   Justice William O. Douglas

John Osborne                         Lyndon Baines Johnson

Justice Potter Stewart             George Bernard Shaw

Abbie Hoffman                        Dick Cavett

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

1.    "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."  _____________________

2.    “Information is the currency of democracy.” ______________________

3.    “When decorum is repression, the only dignity free people have is to speak out.” _______________________

4.    “Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book." ________________________

5.    "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education." ____________________________

6.    It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” ________________________

7.    "If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." _____________________

8.    Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."  _____________________

9.    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." ___________________________

10. “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” _______________________

11. "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. " ________________________

12. “Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself would.” _______________________

13. “Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance." ____________________________

14. “Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads." ___________________________

15. "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."  _________________________________

16. “As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored not existence.” ______________________

17. “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” ________________________

18. “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."  ____________________________________

19. “Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime . . . .” _________________________________________

20. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ____________________________

21. “Every burned book enlightens the world.” _____________________________

22. “What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages, they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.” ___________________________

23. Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest, and cowardice.” __________________________

24. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it’s right.” ___________________________

25. The gains in education are never really lost; books may be burned, and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.”  _______________________________

 ttps://nmsu.libguides.com/censorship/quotes

https://repository.ifla.org/bitstream/123456789/1722/1/quotes-on-intellectual-freedom-and-censorship.pdf

https://www.bustle.com/articles/183209-15-quotes-about-censorship-and-the-danger-of-banning-books