When Minds Are Closed and Books Are Banned

A mind is just a mind until it’s opened… ’Til then it remains just like a book upon the shelf… But once opened we find love and hope we can feel all emotions we begin to think and reason for ourself. There is one truth about a mind that I can offer, one certainty… one fact to be proposed… a mind has no ability for compassion no power to inspire… when it is closed. Likewise…a book is just a book until it’s opened ’til then we know not on what adventure it will take us. will it make us laugh… or cry… or shudder with emotion? Will it reach deep into our hearts and souls… Will it wake us? There is one truth about a book that I can offer, one certainty… one fact to be proposed: a book has no ability to make us think to stir our imagination… no power to inspire… when it is closed. Our country’s history is filled with joys and triumphs other times…pain and suffering we have brought…. but to truly understand who we are and where we’re going both our good and our bad history must be taught. If we are only given half the story then our true history we shall never understand for we can never be the country we aspire to be when our minds are closed and when our books are banned.