Community Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we really need…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

— Richard M. Daley

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the…

— Karin Slaughter

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of…

— Paula Poundstone

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they…

— Kate Mosse

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

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help…

— Andrew Carnegie

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

— Andrew Carnegie

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

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

— Philip Pullman

I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I…

— Karin Slaughter