Morality of Silence
According to Prof. Jerry Evensky, Economics Professor at Syracuse University this phrase is more of question than a definition. “We have a legal right to remain silent, but do we have a moral right to silence or do we sometimes have a moral obligation to speak?” Prof. Evensky uses two quotes from Martin Luther King to expand on this point. “In the end, we will remember not the works of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Think about these phrases and how they affect what happens in the Kite Runner.
Free Internet Resources:
Committee on the Judiciary. Apologizing to the Victims of Lynching and the Descendants of those Victims for the Failure of the Senate to Enact Anti-Lynching Legislation. Trans. United States. Cong. Senate. S. Res. 39 ed. Washington:, 2005. . GPO Access. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:sr39ats.txt.pdf
Periodical and Encyclopedia Articles:
Austin, Andrew. "Review Essay: Explanation and Responsibility: Agency and Motive in Lynching and Genocide." Journal of Black Studies 34.5 (2004): 719-33.
Burrell, David, and Stanley Hauerwas. "Self-Deception and Autobiography: Theological and Ethical Reflections on Speer's Inside the Third Reich." Journal of Religious Ethics 2.1 (1974): 99-117.
Catherine, F. O. X. "Lynching Apology just a Start, Collector Says." The Atlanta Journal - Constitution Jun 23 2005: B.1.
Smith, Patricia. "Bad Samaritans, Acts, and Omissions" in A Companion to Applied Ethics: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, Frey, R G (Ed), 475-486., 2003. Call number: BJ1031 .C585 2003
Books:
Auron, Yair. The Banality of Indifference : Zionism & the Armerica
Genocide. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2000. Call number: DS195.5.A9713 2000
Bar-On, Dan. Legacy of Silence : Encounters with Children of the Third Reich. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. Call number: D804
Braham, Randolph L. The Vatican and the Holocaust : The Catholic Church and the Jews during the Nazi Era. Vol. 550. New York; Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Graduate Center/City University of New York; distributed by Columbia University Press, 2000. Call number: D810.J4V32000
Clarkson, Petruska. The Bystander : An End to Innocence in Human Relationships?. London: Whurr Publishers, 1996. Call number:
BF637.H4 C61 1996
Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved. New York: Summit Books, 1988.
Lookstein, Haskel. Were we our Brothers' Keepers? : The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938-1944. New York, NY: Hartmore House, 1985.
Call Number: D810.J4 L45313 1988
Lookstein, Haskel. Were we our Brothers' Keepers? : The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938-1944. New York, NY: Hartmore House, 1985. Call number: E184.J5L76 1985
Marrus, Michael Robert. Bystanders to the Holocaust. Vol. 8. Westport: Meckler, 1989. Call number:
D804.3 .N39 1989 v.8
Medoff, Rafael. The Deafening Silence. New York: Shapolsky, 1987. Call number:
E184.J5 M42 1987
Miles, Steven H. Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror. New York: Random House, 2006.
Miller, Arthur G. The Social Psychology of Good and Evil. New York: Guilford Press, 2004. Call number: HM1116.S63 2004
Morse, Arthur D. While Six Million Died; a Chronicle of American Apathy. New York: Random House, 1968. Call number: D810.j4 M59
Power, Samantha. "A Problem from Hell" : America and the Age of Genocide. New York: Basic Books, 2002. Call number: HV6322.7.P69 2002
Ratcliffe, James M. The Good Samaritan and the Law. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1981. Call number: K .R233 G6
Schwan, Gesine. Politics and Guilt : The Destructive Power of Silence. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Call number: JN3971.A91 S38 2001
Staub, Ervin. The Psychology of Good and Evil : Why Children, Adults, and Groups Help and Harm Others. Cambridge, U.K. ;Cambridge University Press, 2003. Call number: BF789.E94 S83 2003
Unger, Peter K. Living High and Letting Die : Our Illusion of Innocence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Call number: BJ1469 .U54 1996
Wiesel, Elie. The Town Beyond the Wall. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum, 1964. Call Number: PQ2683.I32 V513 1982
Wyman, David S., and David S. Wyman. America and the Holocaust : A Thirteen-Volume Set Documenting the Editor's Book the Abandonment of the Jews. New York: Garland Pub., 1989.
Call number: OVERSIZE D804.3 .A47 1989
Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945. New York: The New Press, 1998.
Call number: D810.J4 W95 1998
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