[midwood-reps] Fwd: Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017

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> Today, January 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017. I think it's a good time for us all to reflect on the lessons we have learned from history and apply them to present day events.
> "Empathy - The ability to identify with or understand the perspective, experiences, or motivations of another individual and to comprehend and share another individual's emotional state." 
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> I often ask myself, if I were living in that situation, and in the shoes of the various people in Europe, who would I have been then, and in today's world who am I now? 
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> "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -  Edmund Burke
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> Can you and I be like this guy in the crowd who defied the Nazis or this lady hitting a Nazi with her bag? 
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>  Below is a quotation from Niemöller to reflect on:
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> First, they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
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> Because I was not a Socialist.
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> Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— 
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> Because I was not a TradeUnionist. 
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> Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— 
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> Because I was not a Jew. 
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> Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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> Best regards,
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> Josue (Josh) Pierre
> Democratic State Committeeman
> District Leader - 42nd AD NYS
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> Josue Pierre · 76 E 31 St, Brooklyn, NY 11226, United States 
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