Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.
Hart Crane
The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.
Curt Weldon
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut
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