“Time is so long when there is suffering and so short when there is happiness.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Someday you will grow up and find that there will be times in your life that you will feel hatred and vengeance and then some days you will be forgiving and understanding.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“prisoners talk, trying to figure out the”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“To live, that was all that mattered.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Time is long when you suffer and short when you are happy.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“of WHY? and HOW CAN THE WORLD LET THIS HAPPEN? I thought of our beloved Rabbi, who had been tortured and killed.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“It was with heart-felt gratitude to this country that had saved my life that I served in the U. S. Army to fight for freedom. Above all, I will forever remember those men that fought for the liberation of the European Jews and helped to ensure the freedom and democracy for the United States of America. God Bless. -”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“The depression was the great leveler of mankind. From this I learned a lot about human nature. With survival foremost in each person's mind, jealousy, envy and cowardice became apparent in our small community. Soup”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“burdens shared are always easier to bear.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Yesterday is in the past and we will never retrieve it, we can only move forward.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Time is long when you suffer and short when you are happy. We”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Upon entering the town there was a Gestapo man with a noose around his neck, hanging for everyone to see. I went over and stared at this man dangling in the air, lifeless. I had no feelings one way or another for this man. I was numb in my heart. I tried to hate him and tell myself he was no good and deserved to die, but I felt empty inside. The only thing I noticed was his shoes that he wouldn't need any longer, so I untied them and put them on my feet.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Johnson devoted an entire section to racial etiquette on the highway. “When driving their own cars,” he wrote, “they were expected to maintain their role as Negros and in all cases to give whites the right-of-way.” He later added, “If there is any doubt about whose turn it is to make a move in traffic, the turn is assumed to be the white person’s.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, quote from The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
“If I made you from nothing, then maybe I am God, and because I want More, maybe I'm the Devil.”
― Craig Clevenger, quote from Dermaphoria
“They were good listeners, worldly yet easily shocked, hungry for details, curious and nonjudgmental at the same time, always happy to give advice, but only if it was requested.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from The Abstinence Teacher
“You're smart and confident and the people around you seem to love you." He stops and watches me, I can tell he is deciding to continue. "And when I look into your eyes I see a little light flicker..."
He pauses for a second. I look at him, but still don't speak.
"And for the last twenty four hours all I could think about was what it would take to turn that flicker into a flame.”
― Vi Keeland, quote from Worth the Fight
“She breathed gently and her round face had an expression of serenity, as if all was right with the world. As if I was cradling her brother in my arms alongside her… as if her mother… I”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
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