The Perils of Indifference: Compare and Contrast

The Perils of Indifference: Compare and Contrast

Elie Wiesel, "Hope, Despair and Memory"

Elie Wiesel was a teenager in Romania when the Nazis took control and deported him and his family to concentrations camps in and around Germany. He was liberated from Buchenwald in 1945, but by the...

Martin Niemöller, "First They Came for the Socialists…"

You may have heard one version or another of this quotation from a Protestant pastor living in Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has an entire page dedicated to it. Niemöller's...

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

This act was the result of lots of bad feelings related to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which lots of people, including President Harry Truman, believed to be un-American. The act m...

FDR, "The Four Freedoms"

When FDR gave his State of the Union address in 1941, American allies were busy fighting Hitler and the spread of Nazism in Europe. The United States didn't have troops on the ground yet—and they...