Quotes & Sayings About Libraries And Censorship

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] — John F. Kennedy

For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are, you wish you could not do them. For most of us it's "I cannot get off Facebook." But imagine that your demon has you living on the street. I don't think those compulsions and obsessions are that different. — Jess Walter

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. — Matthew Lesko

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power. — Graham Kendrick

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book ... — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sir Storm, I have decided that you are a god of poetic justice."
Baka to Storm — Victoria Danann

I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can get into a fielding funk just as quick as you can hitting. — Marcus Giles

We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want. — Arash Ferdowsi

Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way. — Mary Baker Eddy

...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library. — Jan Louch