Banning Books Quotes

“I'm not, like, a book guy, but isn't the point of all this book stuff like what Ms. Croft was teaching us -- that unrestricted access to books allows us to be challenged and changed? To learn new things and to critically think about those things and not be afraid of them? To be better than we were before we read them?”
― David Connis, Suggested Reading

“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not to those who ban them.”
― Brian Dunning

“In the words of author Stephen Chbosky: "Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”
― Amanda Jones, That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

“The one thing you know about people who ban books is that they don't read books.”
― Percival Everett

“I want them to know
that banning a book
is like banning a hug
and THAT is a dismal storm
no should be left behind in”
― Kwame Alexander, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances