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In celebration of Banned Books Week 2001  First AmendmentUnited States Constitution "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."  "Restriction of free thought and free speech are the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." - Justice William O. Douglas "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." - John Morley "A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to." - Dr. Laurence Peter "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail." - Alfred Whitney Griswold "Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance." - President Lyndon Johnson "Without free speech no search for truth is possible." - Charles Bradlaugh "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower | |||
