You cannot speak for everybody. > When she saw the segregation of African-Americans, whether at a lunch counter or in the school system, that was, for her, lik

You cannot speak for everybody. > When she saw the segregation of African-Americans, whether at a lunch counter or in the school system, that was, for her, like the prologue to the Nazi holocaust. Whereas many Jews now say, Never compare (Elie Wiesel’s refrain, ‘It’s bad, but it’s not The Holocaust’), my mother’s credo was, Always compare. She gladly and generously made the imaginative leap to those who were suffering, wrapping and shielding them in the embrace of her own suffering. -- Norman Finkelstein