Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut on libraries from his 2005 "A Man Without A Country" - the simple, beautiful and powerful swan song of this great American master.

"And while on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, their powerful political connections or great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records that than have to reveal to thought police the name of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, of the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
--Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007)
Thanks Kurt - 'And so it goes.' ... Dan