Isn't that a part of free speech? ... People are dying and all the government is worrying about is bad books. ... Thousands of books have been banned due to censorship. People with imagination are probably missing out on really great books. Schools are banning books that aren't even gory or pertaining to death. ...
How many children read Judy Blume books? ... The American Library Association supports free speech and argues, "The freedom to read is essential to our democracy" (American Library Association 383). ... Roosevelt claimed that even if we censor books they will never go away, "We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die" (Wisdom). ... It is the books that will never be written, the books that will never be read all due to the fear of censorship" (University Star). ...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." ... Music is a free expression of the ideas and emotions of people. ... Why should we even stop at books. ... If we censor these books and change parts of them to make it more "appropriate", the point of the book would be lost, as the point of songs are lost when they are changed to become more "appropriate". ...
Amazon.com and Barnes & Nobles sell these books in their stores and on the Internet. The two companies have been criticized for selling these books by the American Jewish Committee and I am sure by many other groups but they still continue to sell it. ... These books might serve as a tool for help but in many ways they can also be served as a tool for good. Many of the books we read today in school at one point or another had been banned. ... The right to say whatever you want is one of the many things that makes this country truly unique and free. ...
Without free will, the determination and direction for man to exist becomes of lesser reason and cause. ... The ideal of free speech is a fine example of the mixing of both order with liberty, to compromise the amount of freedom allowed among the people. Free speech has been documented in American history since the conception of the United States constitution. ... The censorship of language in the media, through television, books, magazines and the internet shows how much order is placed onto a freedom that is made to be extremely important and placed first on the bill of rights. .....
The First amendment of the Constitution states "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press- We are told that we are free but, on the contrary, we are very limited. ... Censorship is used in the novel by burning books. ...
Lawfully, it is justifiable by the books for someone to insult a member of a different social class, race, or community, but can it be justified morally? The First Amendment does state: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." ...
"Fear of chaos cannot justify unwarranted censorship of free speech" (Quittner). ... A censor is one who is authorized to examine books, films, or other materials and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable. ... Democracy is based on the idea that only when people are free to express their views openly can they govern themselves effectively (Bender). ...
It was said to be an association of free men with no single leader or king. ... Much of the books references of these "earthquakes- refer to the second one in 404, the "days of the Thirty- as the book puts it. ... Just a thirty man swing and he would have been set free (a tie vote was an automatic acquittal). ... They were attacking Socrates for his exercising of the people's right to free speech. ... The citizens of this democracy had a right to free speech, but yet Socrates was convicted for his. ...
This is like how the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for expressing his opinions in his books, and the Muslim people being forced to go along with whatever he decrees. ... The fact that the Chupwalas created their own language just so they could talk and defy Khattam-Shud proves that they are truly good and wanting to be free of their association with Khattam-Shud. ...
