How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. (Edwin Way Teale)

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Edwin Way Teale

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