Banned Books Week
September 24 - October 1, 2011
Celebrating the freedom to
read for 30 years
"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."
Banned Books Week is sponsored annually by the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Association and others to ensure that no one person or group dictates what others can read.
Click on any book cover to find out why the book is "dangerous"
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Call of the Wild |
Harry Potter Series
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
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The Diary of Anne Frank |
Lord of The Rings |
American Heritage Dictionary
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Working |
The House of the Spirits |
Daddy's Roommate
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The Origin of Species |
Holy Bible |
So Far from the Bamboo Grove |
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Fahrenheit 451 |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Olive's Ocean |
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How to Eat Fried Worms |
Private Parts |
A Clockwork Orange |
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Maurice |
The Drowning of Stephan Jones |
The Golden Compass |
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Ordinary People |
And Tango Makes Three |
Twilight |
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As
long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other
institutions, I am free to print anything.
--Pierre-Augustin
Caron de Beaumarchais
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
--Nadine Gordimer
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
--Clare Booth Luce
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
--Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter
Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is the hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
--U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
--Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
--Salman Rushdie
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much
--Walter Lippman
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