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"Revisionism means nothing more or less than the effort to correct the historical record." —Harry Elmer Barnes

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." —Adlai Stevenson

"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth" —H.G. Wells

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." —Mark Twain

"[T]he true democrat is he who with purely non-violent means defends his liberty and therefore his country’s and ultimately that of the whole of mankind." —Mahatma Gandhi

"Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate—healthy virile hate—for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German" —Elie Wiesel

"If it isn’t prohibited it ain’t worth reading." —Ditlieb Felderer

"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." —Carl T Rowan

"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." —Ray Bradbury

"These Holocaust deniers are very slick people. They justify everything they say with facts and figures." —S. Some, Chairman, NJ Commission on Holocaust Education

"If a book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But for God’s sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose." —Thomas Jefferson

"A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing." —George Orwell

"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still." —John Stuart Mill

"To write is to wage war." —Voltaire

"The first casualty when war comes is truth." —U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson

"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded." —Mahatma Gandhi

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." —Mark Twain

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." —George Orwell

"Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction." —American Library Association

"I disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire

"To prohibit free speech is the first act of terrorism." —Spinoza

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions." —William O. Douglas

"So long as the superstition that men should obey unjust laws exists, so long will their slavery exist." —Mahatma Gandhi

"Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings." —Heinrich Heine

"Show me or draw me a Nazi gas chamber!" —Professor Robert Faurisson