"When I saw photographs of children murdered by……" — Stephen Spender

When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt… - Stephen Spender

"When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red atrocities, I merely felt indignant that people should tell such lies. In the first case I saw corpses, in the second only words. . . I gradually acquired a certain horror of the way in which my own mind worked. It was clear to me that unless I cared about every murdered child impartially, I did not really care about children being murdered at all."

— Stephen Spender

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