About fascism

... "And that frightens me more than almost anything, is the added layer that we are about to start losing more of the people who remember it best. There is a generation among us, in their 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and beyond, who did not learn about fascism from a book or a documentary or a post like this one. They learned it in their soul. They learned it from a parent who came home from the war changed, or who did not come home at all. They learned it from the silence at the dinner table, from the relatives whose names were spoken carefully or not spoken at all. From grandparents who told stories for future generations to keep telling. And within the next few decades, maybe sooner, the last of them will be gone, and the warning they carried will stop being memory and become history. And history is so much easier to wave away than a scar."...

Heather Delaney Reese

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Lifetime

 "Talvez o maior risco não seja falharmos os nossos objetivos... Talvez o maior risco seja chegarmos onde sempre quisemos chegar e percebermos que passámos anos à espera de viver."

Vera de Melo, psicóloga

Her eyes smile

 

(photo: Allan Grant)