Happy Birthday to anti-fascist Sophie Scholl, who joined the resistance at age 16 and was executed by the Nazi regime at age 21, along with her brother, comrades, and friends. Thread with her complete quote below: - ThreadSky

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thorncoyle.bsky.social • 11 days ago

Happy Birthday to anti-fascist Sophie Scholl, who joined the resistance at age 16 and was executed by the Nazi regime at age 21, along with her brother, comrades, and friends.

Thread with her complete quote below:

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thorncoyle.bsky.social•11 days ago

“The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves...

thorncoyle.bsky.social•11 days ago

“Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies...

thorncoyle.bsky.social•11 days ago

“Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control...

thorncoyle.bsky.social•11 days ago

“If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what?

thorncoyle.bsky.social•11 days ago

“Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”

Sophie Scholl
9 May 1921 — 22 February 1943

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