In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.