I did my report on the First Amendment. The First Amendment of the United States states that, "Congress shall make no law against the freedom of speech, nor of the press." However, the list of banned books in public schools and libraries is astonishing. Most people against literary censorship act with what they beleive to be highest cause: protecting their families as well as their communities from evil. They see that they are preserving the …showed first 75 words of 501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 501 total…all that is seen as "offensive" around him, he will grow up totally clueless to the real world. In closing, I will leave you with a quote by Alfred Whitney that I think is suitable, "Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is liberal education."