“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid”
U.S. President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) said in a speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington (DC) on March 20, 1981:
“But from these terrible places have come survivors—witnesses to the triumph of the human spirit over the mystique of state power, prisoners whose spiritual values made them the rulers of their guards. With their survival, they brought us ‘the secret of the camps’—a lesson for our time and for any age: Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.”
Reagan was referring to prison camps in the Soviet Union. “Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid” is a saying that has been printed on many images.
Wikipedia: Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (/ˈreɪɡən/ RAY-gən; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975.
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27 March 1981, The Daily News (Lebanon, PA), “Reagan Says Superstate Cult Dying” by Frank Van Der Linden, pg. 6, col. 3:
This is the “larger vision” which the President held up for America and the world in his speech at a conservative political conference here.
In an evidence reference to Soviet prison camps, he said: “From these terrible places have come survivors—witnesses to the triumph of the human spirit over the mystique of state power, prisoners whose spiritual values made them the rulers of their guards. With their survival, they brought us ‘the secret of the camps’—a lesson for our time and for any age: evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.”
4 April 1981, Human Events (Washington, DC), “Fellow Conservatives: Our Moment Has Arrived” by President Ronald Reagan, pg. 7, col. 1:
Following is a speech made by President Reagan before the 1981 Conservative Political Action Conference in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on March 20.
(...) (Pg. 16, col. 3—ed.)
But from these terrible places have come survivors—witnesses to the triumph of the human spirit over the mystique of state power, prisoners whose spiritual values made them the rulers of their guards. With their survival, they brought us “the secret of the camps”—a lesson for our time and for any age: Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
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The City on a Hill:
Fulfilling Ronald Reagan’s Vision for America
By Michael Reagan
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers
1997
Pg. 195:
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
Ronald Reagan
Speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference
Washington, D.C., March 20, 1981
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