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“…For this reason her last years were clouded with the great sorrow that she bore for the fate of the Jews among our people, a burden which she shared with them and a suffering which she, too, felt. She stemmed from another age, from another spiritual world, and this world does not descend with her into the grave.This heritage for which we thank her lays duties upon us”

“A refusal to compromise over the right principle, free speech for the free individual, that fact that one's word once given is binding, clarity and common sense in one's opinions, candor and simplicity of life in private and in public-these were factors that went to her very heart..”

“Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.”

-Heinrich Heine-

“The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, be it of a Leader or of an office, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here is infringing eternal laws and taking upon himself superhuman authority which will eventually crush him.”

Excerpt from “The Younger Generation’s Altered Concept of Leadership”

“Among the public, there spread the expectation that the salvation of the German people would now come from Hitler. But in the lectures we were told that salvation comes only from Jesus Christ.”