Censorship

“The ‘what should be’ never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no ‘what should be,’ there is only what is,” says - comedian, satirist, and prophet Lenny Bruce (Green 1). For some years, critics of public schools have zealously attacked literature assigned in classrooms and available in school libraries. Censors and critics ban literature by saying that books are “anti-religious, and humanistic” this is not the only way they attempt to ban literature. Censorship violates the artist’s right to fully express themselves, it impinges access to information, limits our use of public establishments and thus should be abolished.
The censors are on the prowl, and they are determined to dictate what you and your children may or may not read, says Candice Morgan a writer for the Midland Daily News. This shows true most in literary works from the classics to the newly written books. Mark Twain, Stephen King, and Alan Schwartz are three of the artist...