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Mary Whitehouse Quotes

1910–2001 England

Constance Mary Whitehouse (13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was an English Christian morality activist who opposed social liberalism and the 'permissive society'. In particular, via the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, she campaigned against television programmes the pressure group found objectionable on 'taste and decency' grounds.

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It is a deliberate affront to the people to whom it gave so much offence by its near pornography and calculated bias. It would seem the BBC are out to test whether they have managed to condition people into accepting now what they rebelled against last year.

Up the Junction (1965)

The BBC seems determined to do everything in its power to present promiscuity as normal. What I found most hypocritical was that ostensibly the abortion scenes were meant to show its horror: but there was no attempt to point out that normal clean living would obviate such a fearful thing.

Up the Junction (1965)

Dr Who: "Contains some of the sickest, most horrible material"

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Whitehouse (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.