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But the leaders know just how powerful knowledge is. That’s why they want to control it so strictly.”
The time and distance that came with history had a way of letting people forget.
Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.
I’ve always cared, is that I want to protect that idea. That stories can help us understand each other and ourselves and our world. That even our darkest days can be about more than simply survival.
“He talks about loving a person in one particular moment in their lives. Not about loving them forever, but remembering that there was and will always be something once upon a time that made the person love the other.”
I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
The moment the most educated country in the world willingly, joyously, wholeheartedly turned away from knowledge.”
banning books, burning books, blocking books is often used as a way to erase a people, a belief system, a culture,”
“To say these voices don’t belong here, even when those writers represent the very best of a country.
men who crave power use fear and panic that’s incited by certain ideas t...
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“We cannot stop individuals who read for the sole purpose of confirming their already closely held beliefs.”
“There are moments in life when you have to put what is right over what party you vote for. And if you can’t recognize those moments when the stakes are low—let me assure you, you won’t recognize them when the stakes are high.
