Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice." -- Henry Louis Gates

Why this quote today:

"In a symbolic act of ominous significance, on 10 May 1933, the students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of 'un-German' books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture. On the night of 10 May, in most university towns, nationalist students marched in torchlight parades 'against the un-German spirit.'" -- Wikipedia: Nazi book burnings

Edited to add:  Also see Monica Roberts' post about that today:

"Many of those books that went up in flames that night as Nazi Propaganda Minster Joseph Goebbels spoke to a crowd of 40,000 that evening came from the recently raided sex institute of Magnus Hirschfeld.

"Hirschfeld [...] was doing much of the pioneering transsexual research there at the Berlin based institute and it went up in flames. [...]

"And as a trans person, you are also left to ponder the question had Hirschfeld's institute and those books and papers survived, how much futher along trans related medical care and research would be if it hadn't been burned that night in the Bebelplatz?"

Today is:
Gregorian: 2013 May 10
Julian: 2013 April 27
Hebrew: 5773 Sivan 1
Islamic: 1434 Jumada t-Tania 29
Persian: 1392 Ordibehesht 20
Mayan: 0.0.0.13.0.0.7.0
Indian Civil Calendar: 1935 Vaisakha 20