Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

James A. Michener
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Libraries are not just places with books. That is all that people with money think of when they think of them. They are also places where people with no money can get access to information. Libraries can be a place where someone with no money can learn to read if they have the need to do so.

Libraries are also places where people can research something in order to enable themselves to succeed with it or solve some sort of problem they may be facing. Libraries are places that provide an individual's right to acquire knowledge.

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