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Apathy
"Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings." Some might think that whenHelen Keller spoke those words, she was talking of some exotic disease that affects people in the slums. Or that she was spe ....
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.... while the rest of the world looked on. People ignored the deeds of Hitler and the Third Reich because it did not directly affect them. It was not just people in other countries who ignored the cries for help from the oppressed, but neighbors of the victims as well. Martin Niemoeller, a Holocaust survivor, illustrates the passiveness that he felt during that time, and how his apathy led to his departure to a concentration camp. He states, "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jew ....
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