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- Nov 07, 2020
Censored Quotes
On filtering, editing, and what gets left out.
These censored quotes examine how information gets filtered, from students hearing only one belief system in school to audiences unknowingly watching edited film versions.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Nov 07, 2020
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
- Elders
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020