'Libraries Have Been Called One of the Pillars of Democracy'
"Democracy is under attack. Democracies are not to be taken for granted. And the institutions that support democracy should not be taken for granted. And so, that's what the concern is about libraries and museums. It's part of a fabric. Think of it as an infrastructure that holds up--the libraries have been called one of the pillars of democracy, that you have these institutions in every community that allow anyone to come in and access knowledge."
--Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress who was abruptly fired last month by Donald Trump, in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning
