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ID: photo of Martin Luther King Jr. waving at the crowd during the March on Washington, on it is his quote: "He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 weeks ago

"Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented"

  • Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize 1986

Quoted from his acceptance speech -
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/acceptance-speech/

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania. During World War II, he, with his family and other Jews from the area, were deported to the German concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished. Wiesel and his two older sisters survived. Liberated from Buchenwald in 1945 by advancing Allied troops, he was taken to Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a journalist.

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

"You shouldn't pay attention to politics it's unhealthy." - My "liberal" "centrist" family. "You should focus on yourself" they say, "It is what it is, can't do anything to change it, work on yourself" they say, as if the most enlightened and reasonable perspective is to put a blanket over your head and pretend that the monsters don't exist. They'd say "It's hard to take you seriously, maybe become a politician or economist" but when you give them reading material written by economists, politicians, as well as lauded minds like MLK Jr or Einstein, they roll their eyes and go "You shouldn't pay attention to politics it's unhealthy, focus on yourself."

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I feel like it should be a normal thing to openly stand against fascism. If anyone has a problem with me because of that then they've proven themselves to be people I would never want to interact with in the first place

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fuck that. Protesting today ain't what it was in his day. There ain't much sanity left anymore and don't matter how you try to stand let alone move.

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So... Don't protest* evil. Got it. 🙄

(*on a more serious note, you having a narrow and wilfully ignorant view of what protesting actually means doesn't change the fact that not protesting evil makes you complicit with it)

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No. Don't is right. Fucking kill it. Telling someone who is evil will never stop it. Removing his means of being evil will be your only successful method. Don't misunderstand my first expression murder doesn't remove the means and anyone else will simply take their place.

[–] improvise3020@ani.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Listen to holiday in Cambodia, maybe it will help you leftist tankies