In honor of Banned Books Week, brilliant poet Ellen Hopkins (bestselling author of Crank and newly published Tricks) wrote a poem that confronts those who allow fear to turn them into censors. I have never read anything more beautiful on the topic of intellectual freedom. Manifesto To you zealots and bigots and false patriots who […]
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Banned Books Week: The Source
“Goose-Stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them.” ~ Henry Jones, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade I’ve always loved that Sean Connery quote (not just because it’s Sean Connery and he has that hunky Scottish accent, but also because of the underlying sentiment). Ignorance (whether willful or enforced) breeds many […]