Monday, June 3, 2019

Angela Merkel on walls and lies

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressing Harvard graduates last week told them to "tear down walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness, not to call lies truth and truth lies.

"I was no dissident, I didn't run up against the wall but I didn't deny it either because I didn't want to lie to myself.

"The Berlin Wall limited my opportunities, it literally stood in the way. But in all those years it didn't manage one thing: to deny my inner borders.

"My peronality, fantasy and longings - none of that could be limited by bans and coercion."

Great words spoken by a German chancellor on Ascension Thursday in the United States of American during the presidency of Donald Trump.

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