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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRead Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Teenage (13yo) Essay on the Holocaust
One PeopleThe war has left a bloody trail and many deep wounds not too easily healed. Many people have been left with scars that take a long time to pass away. We must never forget the horrors which our brethren were subjected to in Bergen-Belsen and other Nazi concentration camps. Then, too, we must try hard to understand that for righteous people hate and prejudice are neither good occupations nor fit companions. Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking. In our beloved land families were not scattered, communities not erased nor our nation destroyed by the ravages of the World War.
Yet, dare we be at ease? We are part of a world whose unity has been almost completely shattered. No one can feel free from danger and destruction until the many torn threads of civilization are bound together again. We cannot feel safer until every nation, regardless of weapons or power, will meet together in good faith, the people worthy of mutual association.
There can be a happy world and there will be once again, when men create a strong bond towards one another, a bond unbreakable by a studied prejudice or a passing circumstance. Then and only then shall we have a world built on the foundation of the Fatherhood of God and whose structure is the Brotherhood of Man.
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Read Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Teenage (13yo) Essay on the Holocaust (Original Post)
Behind the Aegis
Sep 2020
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Farmgirl1961
(1,493 posts)1. A brilliant young mind with a deep conviction
Budi
(15,325 posts)2. K & R a million ..🍃 RBG at 13 years old
She truly remains one of a kind.
3catwoman3
(23,968 posts)3. Many adults do not have that depth of thought nor...
...command of language.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. She was truly an amazingly brilliant person.
Very few people like her come along in a lifetime. We were fortunate to have had her. I mourn her loss, not just because she has left a Supreme Court seat empty, but because she has left a huge void in the world where her presence had been. She was an icon and a force of nature. I am truly saddened by her passing.
KT2000
(20,572 posts)5. "many torn threads of civilization"
very impressive - and at 13 years old, amazing.
Behind the Aegis
(53,936 posts)6. kick