The men over thirty round about us were afraid: for their wives and their children — these were real reasons; but also for their possessions, their p… - Jacques Lusseyran

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The men over thirty round about us were afraid: for their wives and their children — these were real reasons; but also for their possessions, their position, and that is what made us angry; above all for their lives, which they clung to much more than we did to ours. We were less frightened than they were. The years ahead would prove the point. Four-fifths of the Resistance in France was the work of men less than thirty years old.

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About Jacques Lusseyran

Jacques Lusseyran (19 September 1924 – 27 July 1971) was a French author and political activist. He was blinded at age 7 and at 17 formed a resistance group in Nazi occupied France, for which he was later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. He later wrote an autobiography: And There Was Light.

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