WebsitesJanuary 25, 2007 12:54 pm
“There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them”
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Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1996
Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg, exiled 1972
“We especially urge young people in all lands to read and discuss the books which were ordered “incinerated” by judges subservient to Fidel Castro in 2003. The paper of books written by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, George Orwell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Carlos Franqui, Vaclav Havel, Oswaldo Paya, Pope John Paul II and many others may have been burned, but their words have flown like birds to the minds of those who yearn to be free.” From the Read a Burned Book Statement http://www.4freadom.org/RBBStatement.html
