what makes a Nazi?
inability to respect
rights of fellow men
The evil characteristic that makes a Nazi a Nazi is his utter inability to understand and therefore to respect the qualities or the rights of his fellow men. His only method of dealing with his neighbor is first to delude him with lies, then to attack him treacherously, then beat him down and step on him, and then either kill him or enslave him.
Address at Ottawa, Canada on August 25, 1943 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He went on to say:
We spend our energies and our resources and the very lives of our sons and daughters because a band of gangsters in the community of Nations declines to recognize the fundamentals of decent, human conduct.
And he closed with:
Some day, in the distant future perhaps—but some day, it is certain—all of them will remember with the Master, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Above all else, FDR was very astute in his study of his fellow man and his fellow Americans.
Something tells me that if he were alive today he would not be too surprised of the rise of the Right wing.
Not too surprised but maybe a little hurt that those feelings could survive.
As he said in the middle of this speech, “I am everlastingly angry only at those who assert vociferously that the four freedoms and the Atlantic Charter are nonsense because they are unattainable. If those people had lived a century and a half ago they would have sneered and said that the Declaration of Independence was utter piffle.”
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