"To build up a future, you have to know the past."
"We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice."
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Source: Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald
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