Driscoll, Tierney Help Dedicate New Downtown Salem Plaque [VIDEO]
Local officials gathered with the city's No Place for Hate Committee Thursday afternoon to dedicate a new plaque in downtown Salem.
Several of the speakers at Thursday's downtown Salem plaque dedication pointed out that the corner of Washington and Front streets was well-known for years as the spot where a Salem man would hold signs and shout antisemitic comments to passing motorists. Now, thanks to Salem's No Place for Hate Committee, that same location will be the permanent home of a giant boulder bearing a plaque meant to encourage tolerance. A crowd of some 50 area residents joined city and state officials Thursday afternoon for a dedication ceremony and ribbon cutting for the new plaque. The plaque features an inscribed quote by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel that reads: "The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference." …
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Daniel
11:37 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013
An idea is the most powerful thing that a human can aspire to. Love your neighbor and for once can we just all agree that Hate has no place in our city. Let's leave the political posturing and whining to the issues we all actually disagree on. Anyone who is against the end of Hate has other problems they should probably work out. Sometimes an idea can be embraced by all sides, I think this is one. more ›