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Break the Chain

Bynhcarmichael

“For you and your children hold a message: act so that the fruit of hatred, whose traces you have seen here, bears no new seeds, either tomorrow or forever after.” — Primo Levi

This world offers a full sampling of good and evil. We sip from the fountain we choose to belly up to. It may be perplexing to see so many choose a path contrary to all that we believe to be true, but that doesn’t mean we should join them. We might instead offer a different path, one without hate.

Despite it all, we each may choose what we perpetuate.

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One Comment

  1. Fear has a new megaphone: modern social media. Keep up the good fight, continue setting your good example, and use for other than spreading hatred.

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