"If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job." -John Berry, Library Journal, October 1999

"Every burned book enlightens the world." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." -Alfred Whitney Griswold

"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime." -Potter Stewart

"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion." -Henry Steele Commager

"I always like having a book banned. It shows someone has read it." -E. B. White