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Quote from Arthur Lelyveld,


"Censorship…is always and everywhere an evil. Censorship means the screening of material by an authority invested with power to ban that which it disapproves….And who is that paragon to whom we would be willing to entrust such authority?"


By:

Arthur Lelyveld (more quotes by Arthur Lelyveld or books by/about Arthur Lelyveld)


(1913-1996) Rabbi within the movement of Reform Judaism

Source:

Censorship: For And Against, 1971

Categories:

Speech, Censorship, Power

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