Martha Gellhorn - A Stricken Field (1940)

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I wrote out the accumulated rage and grief of the past two years in this one story, one small aspect of the ignoble history of our time.

Martha Gellhorn

There will have to be a terrible justice, blowing over the world, to avenge all the needless suffering. Thus far, she had seen the innocent punished and insulted, pursued and destroyed; and when they tried to protect themselves, their enemies were swift, unanimous and relentless.

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After they had public opinion all properly shaped, what good did it do? It was immensely easy to make people hate, but it was almost impossible to make them help.

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The little gray man in the police station was not one, he was anyone. No, he was one; and one alone matters and the world would never believe in any system where one is not important.

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