Edward Albee Quotes
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
Albee, Edward. Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee. Carroll & Graf, 2005.
A Saskatchewan school, Wawota Parkland, had suspended a student, Kieran King, who argued that alcohol was much more dangerous than marijuana and then advocated a walkout in support of free speech. The school had barred the doors preventing the walkout and called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to “assess the threat” that King’s position posed to the school and community. King was suspended for 3 days but the school chose the days of his exams and would not allow him to retake them driving his grades from A’s to D’s. There was of course no threat, and actually what King was saying was scientifically correct. King was further motivated because a close relative had been killed by a drunken driver.
Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.
