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“For libraries, from the time of Ancient Greece and Rome to the public library movement of the nineteenth century, had never simply been collections of books. They were also a public demonstrations of a society's values...”

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Book:The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

Source: The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

“For a lot of us, it doesn't always feel like you're banning the book itself. Sometimes it feels like you're banning the people that those books are about, like, that you're saying that those lives are lives that should only exist in the shadows, that those lives, though they're 10 feet away, no matter which direction you turn, you keep looking over them.”

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Author:Jason Reynolds

“It turns out that some people are coming for your books: people who don’t read. The enemy has never been people who read a book and hate it. It’s often people who don’t read books at all. They used to go after dead authors because dead authors couldn’t fight back, but now they’re going after living authors quite a bit—of course, those authors are mostly Black, mostly queer, and mostly both.”

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Author:Marlon James

“The one thing you know about people who ban books is that they don't read books.”

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Author:Percival Everett

“...it was neither "anguish" nor "discomfort" that these people were trying to prohibit. It was enlightenment.”

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Book:The Message

Source: The Message

“Ban bombs, not books.”

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Book:World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets