Cases Quote by Marilyn Johnson

I was a librarian.

— Beverly Cleary

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public…

— Jerzy Kosinski

It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights…

— Thomas Perez

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

— Thomas Perez

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

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.

— Edward Gorey

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and…

— Michael Moore

I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.'…

— Gloria Steinem

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

— Arthur Ashe

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor…

— H. P. Lovecraft