Carolina QuotesWe went to the hospital; it was full. The doctor told me that two hundred had died the day before. I asked the cause of death; he shrugged and said, "Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live."
Edward R. Murrow Carolinian
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- Broadcast from Buchenwald (1945)
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- 1945
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Good night, and good luck.