![]() "There are worse crimes than burning books. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." - Oscar Wilde "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too." - Voltaire But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." -George Orwell ![]() ![]() "If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. "The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for an opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time." - Joseph Lewis To reject the word is to reject the human search. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. "The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. “Information is the currency of democracy.” –Thomas Jefferson "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." - Heinrich Heine The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education." -Alfred Whitney Griswold The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. ![]() “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." - Benjamin Franklin Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book." - Dwight D. “If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas-and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do-it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas.” - GraceAnne A. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” - Judy Blume It is the books that will never be written. “t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. ![]()
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