Heinrich Boll Quotes
We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.
Böll, Heinrich. "Heinrich Böll, The Art of Fiction No. 74." The Paris Review, no. 87, Spring 1983.
His strategy was to fill the jails of Birmingham, and asked the young people to help. The next days saw virtually all the Birmingham high school students our of school and in the streets protesting which was then against the un-Constitutional laws of Birmingham and Alabama. The students were arrested by the droves and the white authorities, believing that they were being firm against “radical lawbreakers”, fell into the trap, and became a travesty to most of the country and the rest of the world and the hundreds of jailed students beaten and assaulted raised the consciousness of whites as well as Blacks.
Graham was a very strong advocate for democracies. However, many politicians advocated staying out of that struggle. They pointed out that Graham was very inconsistent. He opposed the U. S. taking sides in most of the other struggles between democracies and dictatorships such as in Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, Kuwait and the dictatorships of Azerbaijan, Zimbabwe, and Burma among others. Graham was a strong anti-Russian and supported countries who were against Russia or with whom Russia was at odds.
Heinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.
