Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
—Chief Justice William O. Douglas
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Cartoon sketched in 2006. It is shameful that NewPages.com refuses to list The American Dissident, a 501c3 nonprofit journal of literature, democracy, and dissidence created in 1998 to push back against academic corruption, with the many other literary magazines listed. Denise Hill and Casey Hill have no backbone at all. They canNOT bear criticism. They are like the bulk of thin-skinned poets and professors and journalists today. Sadly, they are incapable of comprehending the above statement by Justice William O. Douglas. Sadly, they cannot comprehend the following two statements either.The selector begins, ideally, with a presumption in favor of liberty of thought; the censor does not. The aim of the selector is to promote reading not to inhibit it; to multiply the points of view which will find expression, not limit them; to be a channel for communication, not a bar against it.
—Lester Asheim, “Not Censorship but Selection” (Wilson Library Bulletin, 1953)
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of all censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.
—George Bernard Shaw
