"More than once I was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being
transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon. I
remember, very sharply, one little boy standing with his parents on the
platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much too big
for him, and he stepped on the train. I was a child observing a child."
"We saw young men put against the wall and shot, and they'd close the street and then open it, and you could pass by again... Don't discount anything awful you hear or read about the Nazis. It's worse than you could ever imagine."
- Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) on living in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation.
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I know most of us have heard this, but it is certainly on topic:
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” —Martin Niemöller
Troubling thoughts, come from reading this, there is entirely too much agitation in the population, and when the agitation rises like this, I sense that people start looking for the scapegoat. I thought the anti-Israeli demonstrations that went unchecked in the Biden era were a warning, and I had a conversation like that with my friend who happens to be. and he seem to agree with me when I suggested to him that you know where this can go. It is in coming upon all of us to tamp down the invective and the hatred, and let us not give our voice to it. Do not let the politicians of either side cause you to become something you are not. I am trouble that sometimes. I think I am going in that direction, and I pull myself up short. Pray for calm
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