“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We'll never understand this country as long as book banning, tip lines and legislation to bubble-wrap the tender White souls among us… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo . Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin . Burn it.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I'm sure the only act that sells more books than a good banning is a good burning.” — Pansy Schneider-Horst Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When we talk about politicization, when we talk about book banning, when we talk about Black history curriculum being picked apart -… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
“Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system, which suppresses the truth or fears to publish… — Kurt Eisner Copy Share Image
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address… — James Howe Copy Share Image
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
“These people decry government overreach as they try to use the government to dictate what citizens can and cannot read.” — Amanda Jones Copy Share Image
“Book banning satisfied their need to feel in control of their children's lives. Those who censored were easily frightened. They were afraid… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not… — Brian Dunning Copy Share Image
“Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“The current wave of book banning sweeping the country has created a chilling effect on our education system and the purchasing of… — Amanda Jones Copy Share Image
