Remember This Quotes

“The man came from another place and time, one felt, a place of dignity and integrity, a time of courage and commitment, a community of just men and women who cared for each other deeply and equally. But he seemed to come from a place of peace only because first, and profoundly, he had passed through such suffering. “I saw terrible things,” he would simply, searingly say.”
― Clark Young, Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski

“With the president’s suggestion in mind, I cannot conclude this without reminding readers that the enablers of evil are not confined to one side of the Atlantic. In the period just before World War II there arose a multidimensional pro-fascist network within the United States, spurred on by German agents, fueled by demagogic media personalities, enamored of the slogan “America First,” and built on a foundation of antisemitism, racism, isolationism, and fear. This was no trivial movement.”
― Clark Young, Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski

“Koestler wrote more than seven decades ago, so surely we have learned our lesson by now. But when the Burmese military attempts to eradicate the Rohingya people of Myanmar; when the Chinese government locks up over a million Muslim Uighurs in prison camps across Xinjiang; when white supremacists march on an American city chanting “Jews will not replace us”; and when Holocaust denial is enjoying a resurgence, we are reminded that every day each of us has a duty to bear witness, to seek accountability, to pursue justice, and to act in the spirit of Jan Karski.”
― Clark Young, Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski