“. . . to educate children is not merely to provide for their material, or even their intellectual life, but to assure them of the sympathy of their parents, to inspire them with confidence and the certainty that there is always one place where they can unburden their hearts and forget their pains and sorrows, trivial though these may ofttimes appear to us.”
Quotes by Alfred Dreyfus
“I shall struggle against the decline of body and brain and heart so long as a shadow of force is left me, so long as they leave me a spark of life. I must see the end of this dark tragedy.”
“How heavy must the responsibility weigh on those others who, in torturing an individual, are also abusing the confidence of an entire nation!”
Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus was a French Army officer whose wrongful conviction for treason became a pivotal moment in the history of France, highlighting deep-seated antisemitism within the military and governmen...