Happy Birthday, Anne Frank

Forever fifteen…

#AnneFrank is trending today on Twitter; I wonder what she would have thought about social media? She never got the chance, though, did she, because she died in a concentration camp. I’m still angry and maybe that’s why I stand in solidarity with #blacklivesmatter and for the resistance against brutality.

I think I first read The Diary of Anne Frank when I was twelve or thirteen. The original version of the film is on Netflix, and today seems like a good day to watch it again and to honor her indomitable spirit and to remember what someone like Hitler can do to innocent people. Especially now.

Some of my favorite quotes:

–It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality…I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

–How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

–No one has ever become poor by giving.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

–As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?