Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them Laurie Halse Anderson
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When a person chooses to censor a book that deals with difficult, adolescent issues, that person is choosing ignorance. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them. Censorship only turns kids into villains and villains into tyrants, which is not a role our children should be preparing for.

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