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, New York Times, 24 February 1959
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Coda http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/451/451.html
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MASSIVE Study Guide (PDF) http://www.steppenwolf.org/_pdf/studyguides/F451_studyguide.pdf
Ray's webpage http://www.raybradbury.com/
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky
Banned Books and Book Burning
| Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. |
—Heinrich Heine |
American Library Association www.ala.org/bbooks
National Coalition Against Censorship http://www.ncac.org/index.php