I missed Banned Books week, so when a colleague mentioned it to me I thought this is going to be good, there will be a load of highly contentious political books but alas no – there was no book of the dead and I’ve read most of them.
Some time later……
I also came across this image at a much later date from http://www.flickr.com/photos/florian_b/44227093/ where i was asked to use the image and the message that is below. How could I refuse?
Against Banned Books (Please Spread This Pic & The Text)
Book Banning is such an awful thing,… parents who want to care for their kids challenge books and then… they perhaps ar banned… Banned Book week is a great celebration… celebrate freedom of speech and press is what they want to say… and these parents who “care” for their kids i cant understand them… they let them watch tvtvtv and play violent videogames but books shall be difficult? weird ^^
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” — Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
