Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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