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.”

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    712·
    2 days 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.

    • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      They took a side, its just not a side you’ll admit exists.

      When everyone loses faith in the current and future DNC to the point that accelerationism toward complete disolution of the US government seems like the only viable choice, this is what it looks like.

      The DNC being in favor of genocide steered muslim voters to want to burn this whole place down. Can you blame them? And its similar for the working poor who are one toothache or splean surgery from living under a bridge. I dont blame them either. But you seem to.

      The very visible nationwide rage at the United Health care CEO and the dems being out to lunch on working class struggles-- coupled with the losses across every single demographic shows that this is a universal truth that exists whether you like it to or not. And this isnt about healthcare, its about the entire system of government.