TEA PARTY WANTS CENSORSHIP IN HISTORY

TEA PARTY WANTS CENSORSHIP IN HISTORY Funny that I would come across this post, as we were just talking about Censorship. This kind of mentality appears to be against progress. Some quotes that express what I feel about this kind of censorship.

"I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
--John Morley

"...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength."
- Hedrick Smith

"Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose."
-- George Orwell

"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime."
-- Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart

"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything."
-- Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais (French comedy writer)

"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
-- Granville Hicks

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
--Euripedes [Greek tragic poet]

And this is my answer to members in the tea party group whom think censorship is appropriate.


""For whatever deserves to exist also deserves to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean and splendid exist alike."
--Francis Bacon


"The ultimate form of censorship is assassination."
--George Bernard Shaw

I shall oppose this type of silencing, as it does not promote truth! You can never really control one's mind unless they let you.