Access Quote by Ed Asner

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries…

— David Horowitz

In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and…

— Marilyn Johnson

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our…

— Vartan Gregorian

When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is…

— Arthur Curley

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

— Susan Orlean

The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is now so…

— Alice Roberts

“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and culture.”

— Matt Finch

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized…

— James A. Michener

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

— Linda Sue Park

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that…

— Neil Gaiman

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

— Marilyn Johnson

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

— Gloria Estefan