“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebur.
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Quote by Karl Paul Reinhold Niebur
Poem by Martin Niemoller – German Pastor & Theologian
Poem is by Martin Niemöller was a German pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. Niemöller was an anti-Communist and supported Hitler’s rise to power at first. But when Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. Unlike Niemöller, they gave in to the Nazis’ threats. In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. His crime was “not being enthusiastic enough about the Nazi movement.” Niemöller was released in 1945 by the Allies.
His statement, sometimes presented as a poem, is well-known, frequently quoted, and is a popular model for describing the dangers of political apathy, as it often begins with specific and targeted fear and hatred which soon escalates out of control.
“First they came for the communists, and
I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me”.
- Still quote of the moment, one more time: Martin Niemöller, “. . . I did not speak out . . .” (timpanogos.wordpress.com)
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India’s Bio-metric identification system for it’s population.
India’s Bio-metric identification system for it’s population.
This is one of the most disturbing fact about the new Biometric identification scheme, proposed by the government of India (GOI). The government wants to literally “tag” every Indian with a “human-dog collar“.
Truly, scary, truly Orwellian in nature. I wonder what’s next? GOI collecting blood, urine, skin & hair samples, and extracting DNA and other biological and chemical composition from every human body that calls it’s self citizen of India.
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THE AGE OF REASON?
The Renaissance in Modern India is wanting.
~ author http://www.thelargestdemocracy.wordpress.com
Raja Ram Mohan Roy endeavored to create from the ancient Upanishadic texts a vision of rationalist modern India.
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