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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
– Atticus Finch, from To Kill a Mockingbird<\/a><\/em> by Harper Lee, a frequently banned book
#15 on the American Library Association’s<\/a> list of top 100 most banned and challenged books, 2010-2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” – Atticus Finch, from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a frequently banned book#15 on the American Library Association’s list of top 100 most banned and challenged books, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qotd_banned_book"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfkMc6-16","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":217,"url":"https:\/\/re-faith.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/10\/found-in-the-crowd-banned-book-quote-of-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":68,"position":0},"title":"Found in the crowd\u2013banned book quote of\u00a0the\u00a0day","author":"re-faith.org","date":"December 10, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\"You sometimes don\u2019t know you exist until you realize someone like you existed before.\" from All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. 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