They both move people forward without wasting anything. Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth. Our libraries create dreams. If you take away the libraries, you take America's dreams away.
People can lose their lives in libraries.
They ought to be warned. America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be. Our libraries are being eroded alarmingly by inflation. There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.