Mollie Has Words
“Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”
— Heinrich Heine, who passed away 156 years ago… (more)

I am an intern at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum this spring. This quote is in the Permanent Exhibit and I think it is possibly the scariest of all our quotes because it’s true and because it’s definitely a warning sign that should never be ignored lest we let history repeat itself. And we certainly don’t want to end up in the world of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 either.
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