“I can tell you that banning books, burning books, blocking books is often used as a way to erase a people, a belief system, a culture,” Hannah said. “To say these voices don’t belong here, even when those writers represent the very best of a country. “I can tell you many things about how men who crave power use fear and panic that’s incited by certain ideas to get what they want,” Hannah continued. “Just as Goebbels and Hitler did that night in May when they convinced a country that setting fire to words that you don’t like or don’t agree with will make you right. But I think, more
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