Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The purchase of a book or pamphlet today may result in a subpoena tomorrow. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads.
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"Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”-George Orwell, author, c. “If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”- Harry Truman The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.”-Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. “First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. “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.”- First Amendment State of America's Libraries Report 2022.ALA Upcoming Annual Conferences & LibLearnX.Related Groups, Organizations, Affiliates & Chapters.
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