Don't Join the Book Burners
How to leverage the light 💡 versus the fire 🔥
We really can’t say this better than Eisenhower said it, but we’ll paraphrase his thinking:
America is the place where all ideas (good and bad) are allowed public debate
No one can make an idea go away by censoring it
Allowing access to all the information is the best way to fight a bad idea
An excerpt from a speech President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave at Dartmouth in 1953.
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.
“How will we defeat communism unless we know what it is, and what it teaches, and why does it have such an appeal for men, why are so many people swearing allegiance to it? It is almost a religion, albeit one of the nether regions.
“And we have got to fight it with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn’t America.”
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