How to Use intellectual freedom in a Sentence

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• As long as there have been book challenges, there have been those who defend intellectual freedom and the right to read freely.
  — Nicole A. Cooke, The Conversation, 20 July 2023
• In an era where our voices are still too often silenced, the battle for our intellectual freedom rages on.
  — Essence, 4 Oct. 2023
• Tell your public officials to stand for the liberation of ideas, for intellectual freedom.
  — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 29 Aug. 2023
• The goal of that war isn’t just to curtail intellectual freedom but to eviscerate the public education system in this country.
  — David Levithan, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
• Notable in this year’s report were other instances of what Nielsen called intellectual freedom or censorship issues.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2020
• The current book banning craze is threatening teachers and librarians who are trying to protect the intellectual freedom of all ages.
  — ELLE, 28 Apr. 2023
• This conception of intellectual freedom is jarring and shameful.
  — Myles McKnight, National Review, 13 Feb. 2022
• Another challenge is this national growing trend of book challenges, and this challenge to the concept and value of intellectual freedom.
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
• Yale would be better off if it were run by people who believe in intellectual freedom and who couldn’t be quite so easily bullied into betraying that with which they have been entrusted.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
• This moment may be particularly dangerous for students’ intellectual freedom, but restricting what kids read is nothing new.
  — Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2022
• Many religious traditions face moments of crisis between intellectual freedom and control.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
• Not unlike the academic boycotts after Tiananmen, in each of these instances, there are serious, valid concerns about intellectual freedom and attendee safety.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• The removal of books solely based on ideological or partisan objections is contrary to the principle of intellectual freedom and should never occur.
  — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
• Librarians across this country work under guidelines to support the intellectual freedom of everybody in the community.
  — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 29 Aug. 2023
• Parental rights groups argue some books contain age-inappropriate content, while opponents say restrictions stifle intellectual freedom.
  — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
• If the New School was rooted in an effort to protect intellectual freedom, its charge now was to support intellectuals who were stifled behind the Iron Curtain.
  — Jordi Graupera, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
• Samizdat sustained a sphere of intellectual freedom that defied totalitarian control.
  — David Satter, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
• In Aquarius, the messenger planet encourages you to think outside the box, seek intellectual freedom and embrace unconventionality.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
• The world’s most powerful nation, a beacon of intellectual freedom for centuries, is now in danger of coming under the control of a demagogue who wants to build an authoritarian regime on the foundation of misinformation and lies.
  — Sunil Mehta, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024
• This celebration is a somber occasion, for intellectual freedom is under siege on multiple fronts, presenting higher education with challenges that are likely to test foundational values as never before.
  — Jamie Kalven, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
• According to Sakharov, the obliteration of intellectual freedom by dictators in their efforts to maintain power resulted in the mental and moral degradation of society, and was therefore self-destructive.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2024
• Censorship fights are dependent on communities coming out to support intellectual freedom and on students participating in advocacy.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024
• As an unprecedented wave of book banning sweeps through Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege unite as unlikely defenders, fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 May 2025
• Well-crafted, transparent policies defend school librarians and their collections against arbitrary book challenges, restrictive protocols for readers and eroding intellectual freedom.
  — Abigail Leigh Phillips, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2026
• The new bill does not include terms requested by higher education faculty that explicitly affirm academic and intellectual freedom, and no changes have been made to sections that discuss grant funding and K-12 instruction.
  — al, 8 Mar. 2022
• The idea is simple—intellectual freedom in teaching and research are only safe when universities resolutely oppose efforts by governments to exert ideological control over their administrations.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
• Some of her policies include intellectual freedom, transparent communication with the community and creating equal equational opportunities for all.
  — Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 12 July 2024
• The district’s core values are intellectual freedom, knowledge, inclusion, exploration, nurturing environment and stewardship.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
• Defending public libraries against financial and censorship threats is necessary to preserve social cohesion, intellectual freedom and the very foundations of democracy in vulnerable rural communities.
  — Laura Backstrom, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
• Jones said in a June 21 response email that the Pride display was appropriate because public libraries serve as inclusive spaces for communities that promote intellectual freedom, access to information and diverse perspectives.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2023