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Banned Books Quotes

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail Picture Quote #1

Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain Picture Quote #1

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they’ll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in Picture Quote #1

Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years Picture Quote #1

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books Picture Quote #1

Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor’s grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) Picture Quote #1

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For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, ‘To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.’ (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) Picture Quote #1

Being an author of banned books is cool, I’ve decided Picture Quote #1

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist Picture Quote #1

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Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail (Banned Books Quotes) Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain (Banned Books Quotes) Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they’ll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in (Banned Books Quotes) Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years (Banned Books Quotes) The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books (Banned Books Quotes) Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor’s grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) (Banned Books Quotes) For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, ‘To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.’ (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) (Banned Books Quotes) Being an author of banned books is cool, I’ve decided (Banned Books Quotes) What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist (Banned Books Quotes)