In this episode, I visit some powerful stories of free thinkers who changed their worlds. Some were honored and some were hated, but all stand tall in history as people of courage and independent thought.

I look at ways free thought has been silenced throughout history, how it is still silenced today, and the power of memory to protect self identity through the lens of the movie Gaslight.

I share a story from our modern times about a library that survived a war.

Enjoy!

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Links:

Florence Nightingale nursing quote:
https://memoriesofnursing.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Brief-History-of-Nursing-in-the-UK.pdf

The story of the Baghdad Library:
 https://www.middleeasteye.net/features/where-books-werent-burned-baghdads-ancient-library