Judith Krug Quotes:

You should have access to ideas and information regardless of your age. If anyone is going to limit or guide a young person, it should be the parent or guardian and only the parent or guardian.

source: - "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend" by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 1997).

Topics: Ideas, Parent, Age

I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes.

source: - "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend," by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 199.

Topics: Real, Eye, People, None Of Your Business, Computer Screen

We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.

source: - "Easy Access?" by Spencer Michels, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, August 7, 1997.

Topics: Children, Thinking, Ideas

Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember and I mean not only librarians but everybody has to remember not to let it overshadow the incredible wealth of information that is available in this medium.

source: - "Easy Access?" by Spencer Michels, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", August 7, 1997.

Topics: Mean, Might, Information

A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child pornography.

source: - "Libraries vs. Police in a Suit Sparked by Porn; Kent Case Centers on People's Rights and Protections" by Jeffrey M. Barker, August 13, 2002.

Topics: Country, Children, Lawyer

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

source: - "Oak Lawn Library Vows to Keep Playboy on Shelf" by Jo Napolitano, June 23, 2005.

Topics: Country, Children, People, Safe Places

Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening.

source: - "Group Targets Black Authors' Books; Toni Morrison's Novel Deemed 'Smut' by Parent; Acclaimed Memoir 'Black Boy' Also is Under Fire" by Valerie Olander, The Detroit News, January 24, 2007.

Topics: Real, Writing, Creating

Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.

Topics: Powerful, People, Community

Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out.

source: - "Preventing Kids From Seeing Illegal Smut Is Not Unconstitutional; It's Common Sense" by Janet M. LaRue, Senior Director of Legal Studies at the Family Research Council, "National Policy Center: Idea House", 2001.

Topics: Children, Block, Hair

It is all here. You make the choice.

source: - "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend" by Pamela Mendels, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 1997.

Topics: Choices