My father was a public figure. \u00a0He was an activist, a fighter against bigotry, repression and injustice. \u00a0He became internationally known for his involvement in causes that fought these evils. \u00a0\u00a0And I am grateful that he passed those ideals on to his children. \u00a0But he gave us another gift.<\/p>\n
He was, above all, in love with life. Our house was filled with music and art. He took us to museums and concerts and to his favorite ice cream parlor. His library was his most precious possession and he bought us any book we wanted. He loved good food and good wine and parties.\u00a0 We were not wealthy but he taught us how to enrich our lives.<\/p>\n
I now realize that these two aspects of his life were connected. \u00a0While his most important battles were against those who enslaved, arrested and murdered innocent people, he also felt that no one should be deprived of the enjoyments that life offered him. \u00a0He hated prejudice and poverty, inequality and deprivation. He wanted a world in which no child would be deprived of the joys of music and art and the stories found in wonderful books and even that special kind of ice cream. \u00a0It was to the struggle for such a world that he devoted his energies and talents throughout his long life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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