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DON'T JOIN THE BOOK BURNERS
Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as any document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.
How will we defeat communism unless we know what it is, what it teaches, and why does it have such an appeal for men, why are so many people swearing allegiance to it? It's almost a religion, albeit one of the nether regions.
And we have got to fight it with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they're accessible to others is unquestioned, or it's not America.
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NPR
March 25, 2018
Followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh gather on Oct. 29, 1986 at the crematorium at the Rancho Rajneesh in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, for a book-burning. AP hide caption. toggle caption. AP. How did the older, more conservative ranchers and retirees next to the ranch react to their new neighbors?
The State Press
March 15, 2018
... the arts and culture editors will drink their way through great works of literature, reviewing books and the booze that inspired them. The 1953 novel “Fahrenheit 451," fueled by the author Ray Bradbury's concerns about the threat of the U.S. succumbing to book burning during the McCarthy Era, is a classicÃâà...
HPPR
March 7, 2018
Erik Kirshbaum's book Burning Beethoven derives its title and its central metaphor from a deeply disturbing image: American nationalists setting fire to Ludwig van Beethoven's sheet music during World War One. It is an incredibly shocking image for music lovers and book lovers alike. As Kirshbaum arguesÃâà...
BBC History Magazine (blog)
March 2, 2018
Book burning stirs up powerful feelings as it is perceived as an affront to the cultural knowledge that books contain. Students are forbidden to annotate library books with pen or highlighter (though they often do anyway, to the disgruntlement of the next lender). In addition, the usual habitat of the modernÃâà...
MTV.com
February 27, 2018
Michael B. Jordan is following up his villainous performance in Black Panther by playing another bad guy — or so it seems in the first teaser for Fahrenheit 451. Based on the novel by Ray Bradbury, the setting is the dystopian future — where cautionary tales so often take place — and books are publicÃâà...
UPROXX
February 26, 2018
Michael B. Jordan is the human equivalent of the flame emoji in Black Panther, so it's only natural that his next project involves fire. HBO released the latest teaser for Fahrenheit 451, a TV movie based on Ray Bradbury's dystopian future-set book of the same name. It stars Jordan as Guy Montag,Ãâà...
Smithsonian
August 31, 2017
But for Rebecca Knuth, author of Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century and Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction, Qin and religious leaders like him are only a small part of the early book-burning equationÃâà...
Towleroad
December 31, 1999
Recently over dinner with some friends, I brought up 'Trump's Book Burners'. david mixner book burners A friend responded that he hadn't seen any evidence of book burning taking place in a systematic way by the Trump administration. If you are looking for a 1930s Nazi type of public book burning, he isÃâà...
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