Good people must stand up to fight evil
The tragedy that befell Phoebe Prince, a freshman at South Hadley High in South Hadley, Mass., who was driven to suicide by the taunting and bullying of other students at her school, reminds us of the quote by Edmund Burke, an 18th Century Scottish philosopher and a British parliamentarian, who said: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Ms. Prince's tragic death was the end result of good people, from the superintendent of schools, to the principal of the high school, to the teachers, to the parents, to those classmates who saw her being abused, all of whom did nothing to help her, thus allowing evil to triumph.
Stephen C. Mack
Inverness
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