Lennie

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?” – President John F. Kennedy (June 11, 1963)”
― President John F. Kennedy

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx