“You don’t have the vocabulary to understand the suffering”

One of our great ones has gone. What do you say about a friend who has so many awards, accomplishments and so much acclaim? My friend and mentor – Ursula Franklin – did not just write books, they wrote books about her. She was a public intellectual, a professor, an activist, an author, a Quaker and a survivor of a Nazi labour camp. The work that most people know her for was the research that helped stop atmospheric nuclear bomb testing....

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