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Download full textO'Donnell, Roy C. – 1992
Since freedom of thought and expression is essential in a democracy, censorship of language is rightly regarded as a threat to all other freedoms. Still, it is inevitable that certain restrictions will occasionally be imposed on language in America and in other societies. Restrictions on language date back to the Ten Commandments, which condemned…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Censorship, Civil Rights, Democracy
