Who said this?

Who said this? October 2, 2013

Who said this?

I would rather die in the battle for truth than continue living under the chaos and tyranny that is coming upon us. And so some things are worth dying for, whether it’s in our own emotions or in our own ambitions or whether it’s actual, physical death. Some things are worth standing for and it’s time for us to stand up.

Was it:

A. Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a letter to German Christians in 1938.

B. John Lewis, to his fellow marchers just before crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday.

C. Leonidas, king of Sparta, rallying his 300 soldiers to face the Persian army at Thermopylae in 480 BCE.

D. Aragorn, king of Gondor, speaking to the Mouth of Sauron before the Battle of the Morannon before the Black Gate of Mordor.

E. The Rev. Jim Garlow, in 2013, responding a a California law allowing trans* students to use gender-appropriate restrooms.

(Answer: E, of course.)

 


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