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Quote from Richard Goldstein,


"To subject an artist’s work to a litmus test of political probity --
and to punish institutions that will not carry out the mandate of the state --
is to traffic in the thought control that gave us Stalinism and Nazism..."


By:

Richard Goldstein (more quotes by Richard Goldstein or books by/about Richard Goldstein)

Source:

“Editorial: Mr. Frohnmayer’s Wall,” Village Voice, 21 November 1989

Categories:

Art, Censorship, Coercion, Communism, Crime, Fascism, Free Thought, Nazi, Press, Prohibition, Socialism, Speech

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