I’ll post more later today (home at 3 a.m. as ten minutes of rain turns into a six-hour traveling delay), but here’s yesterday’s quote of the day.
“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody cries out, ’stop!’
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”
Bertolt Brecht


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September 3, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Comfort Addict
That’s a powerful quote (so true).
September 3, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Tiffany
Yikes. What a horrifying thought.
June 20, 2009 at 9:52 pm
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