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Moral courage of Captain Foley (d. 1958) attached to MI6 and stationed in Berlin during the time the Nazis were in control is a shining example. In the ‘30’s he saved thousands of Jews at the risk of his life, without any consideration of personal gains, by issuing visas to them. Had they been caught they would have been sent to concentration camps. There were only two escape routes, either to Palestine or to USA. He issued some 10,000-exit visas to those Jews who were trapped within the city. His moral sense made himself as one of them and as though they had placed themselves in his care. In doing all that was within his power to do he represented Power of One.
Similarly we find John Rabe (d.’50) a businessman a Nazi who was in China from 1908 till 1938. He lived outside Germany during the time of Hitler’s rise to power and was an eyewitness to the rape of Nanking. He risked his life and his status to save people who would later become enemies to his country. Besides his outspoken support for the Chinese seemed to have ruined his career after he returned to his fatherland. He wrote to Hitler asking him to persuade Japan to stop the atrocities. Was it necessary to stick his neck out for people who were not his people?
Moral courage is positive and is what life in any man or woman demands. Such questions of race, color or political affiliations are superfluous. Moral courage engages like gears, only with life.
This moral sense makes no distinction of race, color or even species.
benny