QUOTES: From today's reading, both from Adam Michnik:
""But nothing can change the fact that the Catholic Church is a great asset for the Poles. And not only because churches serve as headquarters for committees aiding victims of repression, or because chaplains speak up on behalf of the wronged and the persecuted; not only because church buildings ring with the words of a free Polish literature and the sounds of Polish music, or because their walls are adorned with the works of Polish painters; and not only because the Church has become an asylum for an independent Polish culture. The Church is the most important institution in Poland because it teaches all of us that we may bow only before God."
-"Letter from the Gdansk Prison, 1985"
" I believe that when we try to account for history by limiting ourselves to the various social and economic factors which condition human fate, none of these factors can answer the question of why Father Maksymilian Kolbe or Janusz Korczak chose to die; or why we surround their actions with such deep reverence."
-"A Lesson in Dignity"
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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