Amy Poe

“One of the loudest voices to address this issue belonged to the American Library Association (ALA). Librarians felt duty-bound to try to stop Hitler from succeeding in his war of ideas against the United States. They had no intention of purging their shelves or watching their books burn, and they were not going to wait until war was declared to take action.”
― Molly Guptill Manning, When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
― Anne Herbert