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Morgan recognized that no matter who had physically planted the dynamite, all the city’s white residents were complicit in allowing an environment of hatred and racism to persist.
“Morgan recognized that no matter who had physically planted the dynamite, all the city’s white residents were complicit in allowing an environment of hatred and racism to persist.”
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
“According to the Himmler–Thierack agreements in 1942, the justice system was in the future mainly for Germans only.150 Their agreements went a long way in recognizing the validity of ‘police justice’. Execution orders for Poles, usually carried out as soon as possible and beyond appeal, were formulated in such a way as to make clear that the decision was made by the police, not the courts.”
― Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
― Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
“She remembers how she ‘wanted only to see the good’ and the rest she ‘simply shoved aside’.”
― Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
― Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
“The failure of many Christians in the South and across the nation to decisively oppose the racism in their families, communities, and even in their own churches provided fertile soil for the seeds of hatred to grow. The refusal to act in the midst of injustice is itself an act of injustice. Indifference to oppression perpetuates oppression.”
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
“Given this framework, he necessarily plays down Hitler’s role, and concludes among other things that ‘what Hitler and the Nazis actually did was to unshackle and thereby activate Germans’ pre-existing, pent-up antisemitism’. What he calls the ‘great success’ in persecuting the Jews, resulted ‘in the main’ from ‘the preexisting, demonological, racially based, eliminationist antisemitism of the German people, which Hitler essentially unleashed’.14”
― Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
― Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
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