““Götz Bergander, son of Dresden, eyewitness to its suffering, and the first objective historian of its destruction, summed up succinctly but tellingly: What began as routine led to an inferno and left behind a signal. What seemed capable of achievement only on paper—the coming together of favorable circumstances for the attacks—was suddenly an accomplished fact. But wasn’t that what the supporters of area bombing had always wanted? Too late came the question of whether they had really wanted it. Or, as the painter Goya—also no stranger to horror—expressed it with even more economy: “The sleep of reason brings forth monsters.””
![“The parts of the [Civil Right] Movement we recognize so well now were not born from a single decision, but were a complicated and messy evolution of ideas and spirits, coming together after a long, hard struggle to triumph in moments when the odds seemed the longest.” quote by Andrew Aydin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ad/andrew-aydin-21143_born_the-parts-of-the-civil-right-movement-we_9744.jpg)
