Jesuit priest Alfred Delp was imprisoned in Germany in 1944 and hung in 1945 (for the crime of demonstrating a 'defeatist' attitude). His words have relevance to our times, I think:
My offense is that I believed in Germany and her eventual emergence from this dark hour of error and distress, that I refused to accept that accumulation of arrogance, pride and force that is the Nazi way of life, and that I did this as a Christian and a Jesuit.
Will Americans, too, wake up one day and find that the values and freedom and democracy that we once so valued, and terrorists so feared, are gone, victim of our complacency?
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