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Brandt Legg
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October 17 - October 31, 2023
“Libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.” – John F. Kennedy, October 29, 1960
‘More powerful than armies and police, stronger than guns and bombs, words are what change the world, and that is why they’re always a threat to those that rule with corrupt ways.’
“All it takes is an idea.
It’s rarely the person with the idea that causes any trouble. Ideas get out there, take on a life of their own. They infect people.”
“Books are more than words, they’re dreams, ideas, and answers, and that is why they fear them,” he said to himself.
a library contains the entire universe, and each book is a portal to a different world.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“Sending young people to die over money, oil, lines on a map, tea, and taxes is kind of like shooting chickens because you don’t like the price of eggs,”
“Peace at gunpoint is not peace.”
“Change lies sleeping within books, just waiting for the covers to be opened.”
Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.
‘But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them.’
