…reading is a problem for young people only if we—the adults who already read—make it a problem. Herbert Kohl

You do not make ideas safe for students; you make students safe for ideas. William Bennett

There is a peculiarly persistent Vicgtorian affection that there are some books that every child should know. This notion has its roots in the Renaissance; but it needs to have its branches pruned. Every child should know the world in which he lives as thoroughly as it lies in him to know it.

This world includes traditional lore and characters, classic tales and long-enduring, if not eternal, verities. It is well to assimilate a great deal of this intellectual background. But it is more urgent to learn the present world in which he is going to live. Sidonie M. Greenburg

A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views Library Bill of Rights

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Oscar Wilde

Literature should not be suppressed because it offends the moral code of the censor. Justice William O. Douglas

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book—then you also believe that no one was ever improved by a book. anonymous

To deny the freedom of choice in fear that it may be unwisely used is to destroy the freedom itself. The Student’s Right to Read, NCTE

Don’t think that you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Society in which the habits of disciplined reading, analysis, interpretation and discourse are not sufficiently cultivated has much to fear. Peter Hammill

A dictatorship is good for writers. Censorship challenges them to make their points with even greater care and subtlety. Jorge Luis Borges

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome direction, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. Thomas Jefferson