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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (PHOTO SOURCE: http://izquotes.com/quote/20916)
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QUOTE: “We must
learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and
more in the light of what they suffer.” [Letters and Papers from
Prison]
AUTHOR: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈboːnhœfɐ]; February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi and founding member of
the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world
have become widely influential, and many have labelled his book The Cost of
Discipleship a modern classic.
Apart from his
theological writings, Bonhoeffer became known for his staunch resistance to the
Nazi dictatorship. He strongly opposed Hitler's euthanasia program and
genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was also involved in plans by members of
the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate
Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and executed by
hanging in April 1945 while imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp, just 23
days before the German surrender.
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