ight to tag such a title. Censorship is the antonym of freedom. We see censorship everyday in books, magazines, music, movies, and in television. It has become apart of our daily lives, and occurs so frequently that we simply overlook it. We need to stop overlooking it and start standing up for our right and freedom that our ancestors fought for. Censorship is absurd, it is ridiculous, and if anything at all it is more harmful than helpful.

“Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites” (Thomas Jefferson). Books, upon books, upon books have been banned from schools and public libraries for what reason? They were banned because the material seemed a little too controversial for the young one’s eyes, absolutely preposterous. There are few texts of Romeo and Juliet that has not been edited in some form or fashion. More than three hundred lines have been edited from high school anthologies! (Joan Delfattore 1). How can one get a true feel of the poetry with more than three hundred lines edited from the pages? It would be impossible to get an accurate study from an edited source. Not only that, there are books which can’t even been studied. These books have been banned by congress for many ridiculous reasons, one being the use of the word “nigger”. The term is apart of history. If we ban books for the term nigger we may as well

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