The Lilac People

They try to convince people that you're the only group they're after, when really, you're just the first one. They look for the first domino to knock down, the one people will give the least resistance to, the one they care about the least. And once they've done it, it might be too late for everyone else.

What I'm saying is, don't regard me too heroically. I care about you because I care about everyone. Nothing I'm doing here is noble or generous. It's simply common sense. It's simply humanity. No person should encourage the suffering of another. There's already too much given by nature. And when a person encourages the suffering of another, you can bet they won't stop there. They want to see it because they hope it will fill the emptiness inside themselves, but it won't, because it never does, and so they'll look for the next one, and the next one, and the one after that.

A country is only as strong as its most vulnerable people...You know from our own library that bad people always go after transvestites first, no matter the country or culture. They are the first ones removed when an environment turns poisonous. What makes it more worrisome is you represent everything. You represent housing and job security and access to healthcare. You represent workers' rights and voting rights and full stomachs and freedom. And perhaps most importantly of all, you represent the right to body and personhood. You represent a country not owning you, not using you however benefits a select few at the top. You represent a country of a people, not a country of the dominant. If transvestites are under attack, then the whole of the country is on the brink of destruction. If transvestites are cared for, the resto f us are cared for. You touch everything a strong society has to offer. We could work, we could eat, we could be healthy, we could live in safe homes, we could decline to fight in unnecessary wars. Our country would be honest. We would no longer be tricked. Our country would take care of us and we, in turn, would take care of our country. So as long as transvestites are okay, we know society is, too. That's why I'm here for you. Because I love my country.

That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.

I'm worried I'll be mad forever." "Then be mad forever," Bertie said. He sounded unsure. "But I have so much anger." "Because much has been done upon you," Sofie said. "The Nazis have made us scared of anger, made us believe that anger is bad. Anger is not bad. Anger is how we tell ourselves that we've been wronged, that we've been mistreated, and that it's not okay. Anger is a beautiful emotion. We just need to express it properly.

When people hurt bad enough, they’ll grab any idea to make their own lives better, no matter how illogical.

Do you think every man is miserable, Bertie?” “Some more than others. But yes, I believe every man. None of us naturally fits every criterion demanded of us. But some of us have to work harder at it than others because some of us have so much more to lose if we don’t.

They’re pandering to the people who were already hateful and looking for reason and protection to be so.

Survival means nothing, Bertie. Just like death means nothing. To die doesn't mean that one has given up or quit or wasn't strong enough. To survive doesn't mean one is smarter or better or stronger. It's neither fate nor luck. All it is, is horrible.

transvestites are under attack, then the whole of the country is on the brink of destruction. If transvestites are cared for, the rest of us are cared for. You touch everything a strong society has to offer. We could work, we could eat, we could be healthy, we could live in safe homes, we could decline to fight in unnecessary wars. Our country would be honest. We would no longer be tricked. Our country would take care of us and we, in turn, would take care of our country. So as long as transvestites are okay, we know society is, too. That’s why I’m here for you. Because I love my country.

A country is only as strong as its most vulnerable people. And you, son, if you may forgive me for saying, are on the lowest rung of the ladder. You’re a canary, Bertie.

The Nazis have made us scared of anger, made us believe that anger is bad. Anger is not bad. Anger is how we tell oursekves that we've been wronged, that we've been mistreated, and that it's not ok. Anger is a beautiful emotion. We just need to express it properly." She pressed her finger down on a random key. "In music, we cal it passion.

The Americans and everywhere else ignored all the Jewish refugees. The Jews were sentenced to death by indifference.

that all the correct traits were what they already had. The rest of us have been left scrambling, transvestite or otherwise. What we need to emulate aren’t things that men naturally have.” “This is all a game.