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Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Feb 23, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
The 1st Emperor of unified China,Qin Shi Huang(221–210 BC),sought to prevent critical comparison with pr. rulers by removing all historical & philosophical texts from private hands & placing them in the imperial library,where only officially approved scholars had access to them/1 /2-Source:"The Secret World:A History of Intelligence" by C.Andrew
Provides an indication why Nazis burnt books and took control of Universities. Also a pointer why the present #BJP Govt. is obsessed about infiltrating Universities,controlling discourse via lakhs of WhatsApp grps