Dissent

"Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy." __Barack Obama

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." __Thomas Jefferson

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." ___Malcolm S. Forbes

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”  ―  Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.” – E.B. White

“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” – Arnold Lobel