A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.
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A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.Whittaker Chambers
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
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Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
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That is why this terrible book is also a book of hope For it is about the struggle of the human soul - of more than one human soul.
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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
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