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<\/p>\nMaybe it\u2019s the biological fieriness that comes with my being a redhead. Maybe it\u2019s because I taught highly gifted kids for so long and their penchant for loopholes is now etched into my very being. Maybe it comes from my own teachers who encouraged intellectual discourse. Whatever the reason, there are few things I love more than a rebellious spirit.<\/p>\n
As states and districts around the country implement more archaic (and frankly unconstitutional) guidelines for their libraries, teachers, and classrooms, I\u2019ve been wondering how teachers can fight back. When they can\u2019t speak up in their own classrooms with restrictive legislation or outside the classroom with non-disparagement clauses, it seems like teachers\u2019 choices are either to stay and be silenced, or leave the classroom altogether.<\/p>\n
Or is there a third choice?<\/p>\n
What about staying \u2026 and resisting? What about finding ways to honor the humanity of your students that can\u2019t get banned? Can educators continue to teach in a way that rejects the idea that we are made better by ignorance, sameness, and inequity?<\/p>\n
They can outlaw your Black Lives Matter signs and the pictures of your spouses. But until they resort to banning written and spoken language, you can still use quotes that affirm the value of freedom, equality, diversity, and censorship.\u00a0Because these quotes don\u2019t contain the \u201cwoke\u201d language on cheat sheets given to parents and district officials to sniff out offending teachers, these will sail right over the heads of anyone who becomes unhinged upon seeing a rainbow flag.<\/p>\n
Here are some ways to use these quotes:<\/p>\n
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- Verbally as class discussion starters. \u201cWhat does this mean to you?\u201d<\/li>\n
- As classroom decorations on letter boards or bulletin boards.<\/li>\n
- On a Smartboard, projector screen, or whiteboard as a \u201cquote of the day.\u201d<\/li>\n
- As journal prompts. \u201cReflect on what ___ is saying here. Does this quote still have relevance today? If so, how?\u201d<\/li>\n
- On random scraps of paper hidden throughout the classroom for kids to find during the year like little Easter eggs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
25 Rebellious Quotes for Teachers To Use in Their Classrooms<\/h2>\n
Note: I selected the quotes from this list from the International Federation of Library Associations\u2019 (IFLA) wonderful compilation of quotes on intellectual freedom and censorship.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuis custodiet ipsos custodes<\/em>?\u201d<\/h2>\n
(\u201cWho will watch the watchers?\u201d)<\/p>\n
\u2014Juvenal (1st to 2nd cent. A.D.)<\/p>\n
\u201cThere comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it\u2019s right.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n
\u201cEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014William Butler Yeats<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Jose Marti<\/p>\n
\u201cHuman beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Sir Laurens Van Der Post<\/p>\n
\u201cTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Frederick Douglass<\/p>\n
\u201cFreedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Bergen Evans<\/p>\n
\u201cThe greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Wole Soyinka<\/p>\n
\u201cI may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Voltaire<\/p>\n
\u201cNever do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Albert Einstein<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can cage the singer but not the song.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Harry Belafonte<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026 death is uniformity. \u201c<\/h2>\n
\u2014Octavio Paz<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Kahlil Gibran<\/p>\n
\u201cI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Jose Luis Borges<\/p>\n
\u201cI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/p>\n
\u201cLock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n
\u201cThe library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Carl Thomas Rowan<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are routinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Edgar Laurence Doctorow<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko, Russian Poet<\/p>\n
\u201cNo culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>\n
\u201cOur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n
\u201cNever, \u2018for the sake of peace and quiet,\u2019 deny your own experience or convictions.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Alfred Whitney Griswold<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Ray Bradbury<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u2014Ray Bradbury<\/p>\n
What if you get criticized or reported for treasonous thinking? Easy. \u201cOh, I had no idea! Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention. Will take it down right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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