The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, US: This is what Rabbi Joachim Prinz said about silence when he spoke just before Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech in 1963, during the civil rights movement’s march on Washington:
“When I was the rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime, I learned many things. The most important thing that I learned under those tragic circumstances was that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.”
Aziz Akhmad
Published in The Express Tribune, June 5th, 2011.
