binding the torn threads

 

 

Ruth Bader as a child.

The war has left a bloody trail and many deep wounds not too easily healed.

 Many people have been left with scars that take a long time to pass away. 

We must never forget the horrors which our brethren were subjected to

 in Bergen-Belsen and other Nazi concentration camps.

 

 Then, too, we must try hard to understand that for righteous people

 hate and prejudice are neither good occupations nor fit companions.

 

 Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said:

 “Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.”

No one can feel free from danger and destruction until 

the many torn threads of civilization are bound together again.

 We cannot feel safer until every nation, regardless of weapons or power, 

will meet together in good faith, the people worthy of mutual association. 

 

There can be a happy world and there will be once again, 

when men create a strong bond towards one another,

 a bond unbreakable by a studied prejudice or a passing circumstance.

 

 

 

 

 ~  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 comments written as a 13 year old child

with thanks to Brainpickings