That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

by Amanda Jones

You only mock people who have awards when you have no real accomplishments of your own.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Smithsonian magazine reported that more Americans go to libraries than the movies,

“Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow.”

The nostalgia 🤌

The only gay agenda I have ever seen is one in which the LGBTQIA+ community wants to be treated equally and have people leave them alone.

no one portion of the community should dictate what the rest of the citizens have access to. Just because a select few don’t want to read it or see it, it doesn’t give anyone else the right to deny others or demand its relocation.

For the crowd who wants to “protect the children,” they sure do set a bad example.

“Libraries are not daycare centers.” A parent shouldn’t just drop off their child at the local courthouse or Walmart, just like they shouldn’t be dropping their minor children off at the library. Public libraries have adult sections because they also serve adults. If you don’t want your child near adult material, you should monitor your own child.

Its job is not to make everyone comfortable with every single program. If you don’t like it, don’t go, or just pretend it’s not happening.”

Each family has the right to determine which library resources are acceptable for its own children, but individuals must also realize that they must afford the same rights to all other parents.”

Those parents need to police their own children’s reading and stop policing mine.

Every child in our community deserves to be seen, heard, and have access to age-appropriate books on the shelves of our libraries, books that represent every family in our village.

books should be windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors.

There’s just no reason for excluding whole sections of society, no matter what your beliefs are. The kids are watching us.

Some people are on horses so high, it’s going to be excruciatingly painful when they eventually fall off.

I’m going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

courage not being defined as the absence of fear, but rather, feeling fearful and going forward despite it.

When Donald Trump was president, he did a lot of damage to our country because of what he posted on social media.

I have never met someone who died from reading a book,

We need to admit wrongdoing before we can move forward,

Our country has some awesome ideals but has a history of not living up to them—of mistreating women, children, people of color, and the LGBTQIA+ community.

It’s not what other people say about us that determines whether we are winners or losers, but rather our reactions and what we stand for.

Human rights should not be political.

We must stand up for what is right and good, regardless of what is said about us.

People who are rational need to take a stand against the irrational. We must do so with grace and truth,

Just because you don’t want to read it or see it, it doesn’t give you the right to deny others or demand its relocation.

Stephen Chbosky: “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”