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“How do you destroy a people? You take away their culture. And how is that done? You must take their language, their history, their very identity. How would you do that?” I pressed my lips together, then looked up at her. “You ban their books.”
“Just because it’s a law does not make it right.
Words are our weapons, and protecting these books is a noble defense of our country.
“It’s not just wishing, Audra. This is a book of ideas. Someone thought the idea and put it into words on paper. That became a seed, and every time someone reads those words, the seed is planted in their mind, too, and it grows and spreads and soon that tiny seed of an idea becomes belief, and belief becomes a plan, and those plans begin to change the world. Control the books and you will control the people.”
books themselves are freedom. Freedom to think, to believe, to dream.”
if I have a book in my hand, I am free.
The moment we start to choose what’s easy or safe, instead of choosing what’s right, we start to become like the snake.”
If we surrendered our books to them, we’d surrender our minds, leaving us hollowed-out puppets, ready to be controlled.
Those simple letters became words that became our identity.
If we were forced to speak a language that was not our own, then how long could we hold to thoughts that were our own?
