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from THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
We aren’t allowed to have an opinion . . . Not have an opinion! People can tell you to shut up, but they can’t keep you from having an opinion. You can’t forbid someone to have an opinion, no matter how young they are!
Anne Frank
from TALES FROM THE SECRET ANNEXE
How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to
gradually change the world!
Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who had to hide from the occupying Nazis in an attic in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, during the Second World War, with her family, and other people, and who kept a diary while she was there (1942 – 1944), from the age of thirteen. The attic was discovered, and its occupants sent to concentration camps where Anne died, at fifteen, not long before the end of the war. Her father, the only surviving member of her family, later returned to the attic, and found that his secretary and their protector, Miep Gies, had kept Anne’s diary, which went on to be published in seventy languages. Anne’s voice is full of defiance and hope and the emotions of adolescence, and her thoughts have had a huge impact on the world.
Remember Anne Frank if you think you might be too young to make a difference.
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