The Rebirth of Mankind Has Begun

Without doubt, we live in politically and emotionally charged times. Revealing times. Times of renewal, and of unrest, in which the possibility of atonement for a demoralized humanity is very real.

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Gunter Grass, from his speech "The Destruction of Mankind Has Begun" delivered on November 25, 1982 in Rome:

But in my perplexity I know that a future will only be possible again when we find an answer and do what, as guests on this orbiting chunk of nature, we owe to one another; namely, stop frightening one another, relieve one another of fear by disarming to the point of nakedness.