Ever since I read the impassioned Freedom to Read statement authored by the American Library Association, it awakened a personal commitment and critical sense of responsibility within me. This was written some sixty years ago but reads fresh and vigorous; it is the librarian's rebel yell:
"Freedom itself is a dangerous way of life, but it is ours."
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| Bebel Platz by Michaela Simoncini, 2006 |
Doesn't that belong on the back of a YA novel? It is the last sentence in the Freedom to Read statement.
The photo above is a picture from an artwork on the Bebelplatz, a plaza where Nazis burned some 20,000 books on May 10th, 1933. This piece by Micha Ullman features a glass plate displaying empty bookcases.
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