"I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man."
Thomas Jefferson
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." John F. Kennedy
In the last week of September, the American Library Association likes to take the time to acknowledge our first amendments rights by highlighting the books that have been challenged over the course of history. Many of these books like The Catcher in the Rye, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 have gone on to become classic literature, and the staples of high school reading lists. We are all capable of accepting that which is mediocre and does not challenge us in any way but we will never grow from it, and in the spirit of this idea stop in and take out a banned book and we will let you choose another from our basket that you can keep for yourself.
Links to banned book websites and pictures of our staff with their favorite banned book after the jump.
