“Our current ‘state’ is the dictatorship of evil. We know that already, I hear you object, and we don’t need you to reproach us for it yet again. But, I ask you, if you know that, then why don’t you act? Why do you tolerate these rulers gradually robbing you, in public and in private, of one right after another, until one day nothing, absolutely nothing, remains but the machinery of the state, under the command of criminals and drunkards?”
White Rose Pamphlet
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MJA, thank you for posting this video. I watched it in length, and I was moved.
Historical facts matter. I am passing this on to my circle of enlighten friends.
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If she wanted “action”, she needed to take it.
She wanted fame, and fortune, and everything that goes with.
She thanks (present tense) you all.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
They were guillotined.
Young, idealistic, and courageous.
Probably socialists (not the National variety) – I don’t remember.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
“On February 22, 1943, she was beheaded for treason at just 21 years old.”
Non violence isn’t going to work.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sophie-scholl-and-white-rose
“Our current ‘state’ is the dictatorship of evil. We know that already, I hear you object, and we don’t need you to reproach us for it yet again. But, I ask you, if you know that, then why don’t you act? Why do you tolerate these rulers gradually robbing you, in public and in private, of one right after another, until one day nothing, absolutely nothing, remains but the machinery of the state, under the command of criminals and drunkards?”
White Rose Pamphlet
MJA, thank you for posting this video. I watched it in length, and I was moved.
Historical facts matter. I am passing this on to my circle of enlighten friends.
If she wanted “action”, she needed to take it.
She wanted fame, and fortune, and everything that goes with.
She thanks (present tense) you all.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer