“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
— GANDHI

“Every burned book enlightens the world.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
— OSCAR WILDE

“Free speech is life itself.”
— SALMAN RUSHDIE

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
— HEINRICH HEINE

“I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
— THOMAS JEFFERSON

“The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.”
— JOHN STEINBECK

“Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
— DWIGHT E. EISENHOWER

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
— BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

“All around us, matters of national and international importance are crying out for creative solutions, from saving the Gulf of Mexico to bringing peace to Afghanistan. Such solutions emerge from a healthy marketplace of ideas, sustained by a populace constantly contributing original ideas and receptive to the ideas of others.”
— NEWSWEEK 2010 cover story on the CRISIS IN U.S. EDUCATION