Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the ongoing persecution of marginalized groups, comparing past atrocities to current events.
Antonio Tabucchi's quote serves as a chilling reminder of historical injustices faced by the Romani people during the Holocaust, urging society to reflect on its failures to prevent similar occurrences in the present. It calls attention to the cyclical nature of violence and discrimination against minorities, warning that the lessons of history must be learned and acted upon to avoid repeating them.
In practice
During a speech on human rights, one could use this quote to emphasize the need for vigilance against oppression.
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.
Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
Real people have trouble balancing their checkbooks, much less calculating how much they need to save for retirement; they sometimes binge on food, drink, or high-definition televisions. They are more like Homer Simpson than Mr. Spock.
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
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