  "The freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack... These actions apparently arise from a view that our national tradition of free expression is no longer valid; that censorship and suppression are needed to avoid the subversion of politics and the corruption of morals."    |      Quote by:  |  |  
Source:  | The Freedom to Read Statement, 2000  |  
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