Salman Rushdie Quote

"The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument."

by:	Salman Rushdie
Source:	“Casualties of Censorship,” in They Shoot Writers, Don’t They (George Theiner) 1984
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Categories:	Speech, Censorship, Death
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-- Anonymous, Reston, VA, US
-- jim k, Austin, Tx
And boy, did the radical muslims ever go after him for this.  -- cal, lewisville, tx
I always find it interesting when we speak of Nazi propaganda without a thought to the blatant propaganda broadcast by the US media.  -- E Archer, NYC

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