Uppity Women #9

(Anne Frank House, annefrank.org)

It's possible to be uppity when you're just a child as Nujood Ali proves. But it takes a special kind of uppityness to put a human face on the struggle of millions when you're still a child. One dedicated act of documentation of a struggle to survive has left an indelible mark on the minds of people all over the world. Published in more than 60 languages, Anne Frank's diary provides a crushing view of persecution. She is snarky, petulant and all too human. She is all of us when we were young. I'll never forget reading it the first time and feeling crushed to learn that she and Margot died only a few short weeks before the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. It is still hard to imagine what every day of living in that camp was like for such a vibrant soul.

Maybe world leaders should have to read it once a year? 

Aside to Michael- even she's been slandered! (Holocaust deniers have long called the diary a fake...)

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