Does Having So Many Faces Make You Great?
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Maybe there was never a sky to begin with, maybe the whole time it was at-most-fear holding us planted here to the Earth and I sat wearing out the flint on my white Bic lighter, knowing I'd lost the spark long before the butane went, saying to myself, "The only thing you ever gained from biting your tongue is a bloody mouth." But I digress.
Ordinary people. The courage to say no.
The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowd, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labor for marrying a Jewish woman.
We know little else about August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in that moment.
The right people do the right thing. No matter what might happen to them.
(via delucazade)
