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Essay Archive - Censorship
Censorship
The freedom to read is essential to the democratic way of life. But
today, that freedom is under attack. Private groups and public authorities
everywhere are working to remove both books and periodicals from sale, to
exclude certain books from public schools, to censor and silence magazines and
newspapers, and to limit controversial books and periodicals to the general
public. The suppression of reading materials is suppression of creative thought.
Books and periodicals are not the only things being suppressed by pressures to
the political and social systems. The....
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