Tolerance

I'm 21 years old and its taken me most of my life to finally find my purpose in life. I didn't realize that everything i experienced as a child was determining my destiny if you will. all my life i have had this innate desire to help people. No, more then help to take care of people. its a blessing and a curse.  I discovered the Holocaust, or i should say the Holocaust found me when i was 11 years old. even then when i was too young to truly understand hate my heart broke for the walking skeletons and lost souls. all my life i experienced hate and intolerance simply because i was born bi-racial. Today i believe strongly in destiny and fate and i believe you do with it what you choose. i choose to take my passion for helping people and fighting against intolerance and hate and use it to change lives. the statement "cant we all just get along?" may be a joke to most people but in all honesty if we could just learn to live with compassion and love how different would the world we live in be? people have been afraid to stand up against hate and injustice if it doesn't directly effect them. I refuse to be silent any longer. i realize that this is just a blog but some one will read it and i hope that it will make them think and maybe they will be a little kinder to their neighbor the next time they speak. there are so many things that go on in this world and people refuse to take a stand because its just in Africa or south America, what happens if its in you neighborhood? who will take a stand for you? 

"I swore never to be silent whenever & where ever human beings endure suffering & humiliation, we must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Eli Wiesel