“We’ve been here before.

This is not the first end of the world. Many worlds have ended.”

“The question ‘Where was God at Auschwitz?’ marked perhaps the biggest crisis of the Christian faith since the demise of the first Roman Empire. The numbers of the Nazis’ victims and the highly organized manner of their execution are unfathomable.”

~ Ibid., pp. 131, 133

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“We might stop this wave of authoritarianism.

We might rebuild some semblance of democracy and social order. I hope we will.

Even so, the world we are inhabiting is collapsing. Authoritarianism is a symptom of the crisis, not its singular cause.”

~ Ibid., p. 130

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"’Never again’ means ‘never again for anyone’.”

~ Ibid., p. 89

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"Indifference is consent to what is happening. Inaction is a choice to leave it unchallenged. Under conditions of injustice and violence, there is no neutrality, only active resistance or enablement.”

“More important than being a hero is choosing to not go along."

~ Ibid., pp. 69-70

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"Not speaking out does not make you neutral. It makes you a bystander. The main moral difference is not between perpetrators and victims but between those who choose action and those who look on. Bystanders enable cycles of violence and systemic injustice to go unchecked. No system of oppression can succeed at scale without bystanders."

~ Ibid., p. 69

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“The Nazis never were in the majority. Those who simply ‘went along’ were absolutely critical to the regime's success.”

“It is easier for you to speak up and stand out if you see others already doing so. So, find these others. Run with them.

Let their examples strengthen your resolve.

Then, be such an Other for others, in turn.”

~ Ibid., pp. 68-9

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