Hitler Quotes prompt School's Apology

NORTHPORT, New York (AP) -- Two high school seniors picked quotations from Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" to appear under their high school yearbook pictures, prompting school officials to apologize.

The quotes were picked by Christopher Koulermos and Philip Compton, both 18. Koulermos' read "Strength lies not in defense, but in attack." Compton chose "The great masses of people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

"It's our responsibility and we failed miserably," said Northport High School principal Irene McLaughlin. "The fact that the book went out in the form it did was a grave mistake on our part."

McLaughlin and superintendent William Brosnan said the yearbook's student staff and its adviser, teacher Robert Runyan, saw the quotations before they were published.

The district plans to send a written apology to parents this week. School officials would not comment on whether they would discipline the two seniors or Runyan.

Officials also are discussing with the yearbook's publishing company either reprinting the section in question or offering special tape to people who want to cover the quotes.

Compton's father, Steven, said that his son meant no harm in picking the quote. "I guess he didn't seriously consider the source; he was more interested in the quote," he said. "He's a child."

Northport is located about 47 miles east of New York City.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
- Hitler

Seriously folks, whats the difference between a Hitler quote and a Churchill quote? Both men were great leaders of their respective countries, and both have said things that were very moving/motivating/quote-worthy. Furthermore, both men fought for an ideal that they believed in.

The difference, is that people dont like Hitler. Why? Because the history books use bs words like "evil" to describe him. What does "evil" mean? "They beleive in somthing we dont, and the god we dreamed up loves us so we are good, therefore, anyone who doesnt think like us is evil.

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
- Hitler

What the school is doing is stupid. It wasnt even a rascist quote EX: "BURN THE JEWDEN"
But what more can you expect from an organisation( Public education) largely populated by whiney liberals?
This doesnt even fall into the realm of "oh noes we mite get sewd guyz"

I consider myself a moderate, but people who want to cleanse the world of history, ideology, gender, race, and nationality, in order to make happy-happy-lets-get-high-land really piss me off.