Leo Papadopoulos

“Man’s capacity to dehumanize and annihilate his fellow man is what stands stigmatized.”
― Theodora Ioannidou, The Holocaust of the Pontian Greeks: Still an open wound

“Ethel Thompson[17] gives further testimony to the heartless abuse of small children being exiled: «During my stay in Amison (Samsunta), in early July 1921, the surrounding Greek villages were burnt down and the residents were displaced, including women and children... On approaching, we saw 300 children inside a circle formed by 20 gendarmes, who were hitting them with their swords. One mother who rushed in to save her child suffered the same fate and was thrown out. The children bent down to the ground or raised their little arms in order to avoid the blows. We couldn’t stand any more.» Turks, oh, you Turks, how can you sleep peacefully at night?”
― Theodora Ioannidou, The Holocaust of the Pontian Greeks: Still an open wound

“For what God would let men kill men like this? Would let men butcher one another and have such little regard for human life?”
― Soraya M. Lane, Wives of War

“The goddess of the dawn, Eos, reigned briefly compared with her brother, Helios, the god of the sun, or their sister, Selene, the goddess of the moon. But Eos’s short display of power was transcendent. The goddess of the dawn was the bridge between night and day, a doorway into the soul of all creation and an ethereal glimpse into the transitions of eternity.”
― Emily R. King, Wings of Fury