Project White Rose 2025
"How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter if, through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?" - Sophie Scholl’s last words on February 22nd, 1943, before death by guillotine at the hands of the Nazi Party.
Publicly displaying the white rose is about:
- It’s about acknowledging that fascism exists.
- It’s about non-partisan, non-violent resistance to fascism.
- It’s about beauty as a form of resistance in a world that seeks to destroy it.
- It’s about reminding the world that the goal of fascism is the death of the individual.
- It’s about recognizing and embracing that our time on this Earth has to mean more than surrendering our spirit to the rich and powerful.
- It’s about coming together as a community to show that we will NOT give up Anne Frank’s location.
- It's about looking our children in the eyes, and imagining them living through the Holocaust.
- It's about preserving history, even when our history makes us ashamed of ourselves.
- It's about signaling to our friends abroad that we stand united with them.
- It's about not being afraid in our own neighborhoods to publicly display a viewpoint as fundamental as "I support kindness and goodness."
- It’s about rising above the propaganda of the billionaire class and helping those in our community under its grip to understand the difference between truth and misinformation.
- It’s about reminding the world that regardless of whether or not you think you are on the right side of history, authoritarianism only stops at complete and total control of everyone and everything - THEY WILL come for you eventually.
- It’s about a symbol that we can all rally around to remind each other that we are not alone.
- It’s about the demonstrably true fact that the Nazis killed people for the very type of ideas that you are reading right now.
- It’s about showing the world that despite where you have been, where you come from, what you think, whatever biases you hold, whatever hatred or baggage you bring to the table, that all it takes is one simple shift in your mindset to awaken your consciousness.
- It's about demanding leaders that serve people, not people that serve leaders.
- It's about rising above those who lack imagination, because they cannot imagine what is lacking.
- It's about Holland, 1945.
- It's about the future, which will only contain what we put into it now.
