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[phroyd]

Sophie Scholl’s last words: 

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”

Phroyd

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Quote from Traudl Junge, Hitler’s private secretary from 1942-45:

Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn’t able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn’t personally to blame and that I hadn’t known about those things. I wasn’t aware of the extent. But one day I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for Sophie Scholl in Franz Josef Strasse, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young, and that it would have been possible to find things out. 

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There is always the choice to resist.

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Just look at her, isn’t she magnificent?!

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Yes, she sure is!

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Feeling at home 1995

Nzante Spee

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Some people in high school have messaged us asking about sitting/kneeling during the Pledge and if they will get in trouble for doing it so I figured I’d let you know what you’re in for.   

Sitting for the Pledge of Allegiance in school is something that I’m very familiar with. Throughout K-12 I literally never stood for the Pledge. First I did it for religious reasons, and when I distanced myself from those beliefs I still sat for personal reasons. Let me tell you, teachers can get very aggressive over this. 

Teachers have yelled at me - and I had one teacher in 3rd grade who yelled at me despite my parents telling him at the start of the school year that I don’t do that. Substitutes were even worse. I always heard that I was disrespecting the “flag, the veterans, the country, etc.” Some of my peers even got mad at me for it. 

In high school I even had a teacher call my mom at her work to tell her that I wasn’t standing and reciting the Pledge. And one time at a high school rally I didn’t stand for the National Anthem and a campus cop literally grabbed me and stood me up and then yelled at me because he was in the army. 

Legally, you are allowed to sit, stand, kneel, recite, or opt out of reciting it. This is protected by the First Amendment and you can even read your state’s own statutes on the matter right here. However, teachers don’t always care about that. As one teacher once told me "what’s allowed out there is different than what’s allowed in here.” 

I’d imagine it is much different now. Not only is it a major subject of political commentary, but Trump has also personally commented on it and made his opinions known. And we’re already seeing how that’s influencing schools. Most importantly, the Take A Knee movement is about anti-Blackness and police violence which will surely anger way more school staff members than I ever saw. 

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[yramme]

A bunch of strangers saw me crying on my walk home that’s so embarrassing

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Alain Delon et Romy Schneider dans La pisicine (Jacques Deray, 1969)

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time: *makes me bolder* children: *get older* me: *gets older too*

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La Vie En Rose playing from another room Edith Piaf

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Me standing on a gorgeous stone balcony outside of a grand ballroom, breathing in some fresh air because the fumes of the champagne and the loud joyous noise gave me slight sensory overload. The wind gorgeously moves my gown.

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