There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled – in short, from the perspective of those who suffer.
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from "A Reckoning made at New Year 1943" given to his friends at Christmas 1942
