Witness by Whittaker Chambers is one of the greatest books of all time. An excerpt from the forward, "Letter to My Children:"
"(...) In time, therefore, when the sum of your experience of life gives you authority, you will ask yourselves the question: What was my father?
I will give you an answer: I was a witness. I do not...
more »Witness by Whittaker Chambers is one of the greatest books of all time. An excerpt from the forward, "Letter to My Children:"
"(...) In time, therefore, when the sum of your experience of life gives you authority, you will ask yourselves the question: What was my father?
I will give you an answer: I was a witness. I do not mean a witness for the Government or against Alger Hiss and the others. Nor do I mean the short, squat, solitary figure, trudging through the impersonal halls of public buildings to testify before Congressional committees, grand juries, loyalty boards, courts of law. A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something. A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences."
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