"Every time you get a censor, you get a fool, and worse yet a knave, pretending to be a guardian of morality, while acting as a guardian of class greed."
— Censorship

January 1, 1970

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Upton Sinclair, "Poor Me and Pure Boston", The Nation magazine, June 29, 1927. Quoted in Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation 1865-1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990.