Banning Books in Texas and Other States
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"Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." - Benjamin Franklin
“Information is the currency of democracy.” –Thomas Jefferson
"If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." -George Orwell
“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance." -Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” — Benjamin Franklin
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