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How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give hi...

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It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you d...

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I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. I...

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I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore d...

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Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. Th...

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An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film...

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Sophie Scholl

Political activist

Born: 1921-05-09

Died: 1943-02-22

Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich (LMU) with her brother, Hans. As a result, she was executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s, Scholl has been extensively commemorated for her anti-Nazi resistance work.More