“Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.”

—  Friedrich Kellner

“Welt muss mehr denn je diese Botschaft hören,” Giessener Allgemeine Zeitung, Giessen, Germany, April 12, 2005.
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