William O. Douglas Quotes About Censorship

• La restricción de la libertad de pensamiento y de expresión es la más peligrosa de todas las subversiones. Es el acto antiamericano que más fácilmente podría derrotarnos.

  William O. Douglas

  Teaching, Rights In America, Political Revolution

  "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

• It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

  William O. Douglas

  Attitude, Fate, Expression

  "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

• Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

  William O. Douglas

  Literature, Moral, Censorship

  "Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957.

• The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that "no law" does not mean what it says, that "no law" is qualified to mean "some" laws. I cannot take this step.

  William O. Douglas

  Mean, Order, Law

• I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Literature, Fields

• Cualquier prueba que se base en lo que es ofensivo para las normas de la comunidad es demasiado laxa, demasiado caprichosa, demasiado destructiva de la libertad de expresión para ser compatible con la Primera Enmienda. Según esa prueba, los jurados pueden censurar, suprimir y castigar lo que no les guste, siempre que el asunto esté relacionado con la "impureza sexual" o tenga tendencia a "excitar pensamientos lujuriosos". Esto es censura comunitaria en una de sus peores formas. Crea un régimen en el que, en la batalla entre los literatos y los filisteos, los filisteos están seguros de ganar.

  William O. Douglas

  Winning, Expression, Community

  "Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957.

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