Banned Books Week Quotes

Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

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.

Stephen Chbosky

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

Laurie Halse Anderson

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.