WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF CENSORSHIP?
• “The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. … In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.” — Henry Steel Commager, historian and educator • “Censorship that hinders peaceable opposition to the government in the short run creates the long-run danger of violent opposition.” — Americana Encyclopedia • “By suppressing reform the censorship may transform it into a revolution.” — Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences • “Every censorship produces a technique of evasion as well as a technique of administration.” — Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences • “It is a notorious fact that censorship or the threat of censorship may make the fortune of a book or play which might otherwise have failed to win public attention.” — Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences • Real issues are not racism or s
