“That is how I see mankind in its suffering; that is how I see the suffering people of Europe, bleeding to death on deserted battlefields after conflicts which to a great extent were not their own.”
About This Quote
“The Suffering People of Europe.” Nobel Lecture, December 19, 1922.
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