Access Quote by Rabindranath Maharaj

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks…

— Matthew Desmond

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

— Luis Valdez

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children…

— Barack Obama

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when…

— Nicholas Meyer

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

— Matthew Lesko

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns…

— Karin Slaughter

At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship.…

— Kevin Mattson

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

— Ken Jennings

Public libraries are critical learning centers for New Mexicans that bring communities together, especially in our rural regions that depend on library technologies.

— Ben Ray Lujan

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation…

— Timothy Healy

Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books…

— Courtney Milan