Emphasis Preaching Journal

Simone Weil, 1909-1943, a French social philosopher, religious thinker, mystic, and political activist, was the darling of intellectuals after her death. She identified with human suffering of every kind. She worked with women in an auto factory to be in solidarity with them, participated in French worker strikes, and even joined the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, though she refused to fire her rifle. Her refusal to eat more than the ration of food allowed in German-occupied France contributed to her death.