Pennsylvania high school apologizes after quotes from Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and the leader of ISIS were printed in the yearbook

  • Controversial quotes were printed in Quaker Valley High School yearbook
  • They offered a refund to parents, or a sticker to cover the remarks up 
  • The Hitler quote is: 'Words build bridges into unexplored regions' 
  • Stalin's statement is: 'Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, so why would we let them have ideas?'
  • The third quote is from al-Baghdadi: 'Be just: the unjust never prosper. Be valiant. Keep your word, even to your enemies'

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A Pennsylvania high school has apologized after quotes from Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and the leader of ISIS were printed in the graduating class section of this year's high school yearbook.

Quaker Valley High School offered a refund to parents at the high school after the remarks from the evil dictators and terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were included in the publication.

The Hitler quote printed was: 'Words build bridges into unexplored regions.' 

Quaker Valley High School in Pennsylvania has apologized after quotes from Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and the leader of ISIS were printed in the graduating class section of this year's high school yearbook

Quaker Valley High School in Pennsylvania has apologized after quotes from Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and the leader of ISIS were printed in the graduating class section of this year's high school yearbook

Officials in the school district offered a refund to parents at the high school after the remarks, including one from the Nazi dictator, were printed. They also told students they could use stickers to cover it up 

Officials in the school district offered a refund to parents at the high school after the remarks, including one from the Nazi dictator, were printed. They also told students they could use stickers to cover it up 

Stalin's statement is more menacing: 'Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, so why would we let them have ideas?'

The third quote is from al-Baghdadi: 'Be just: the unjust never prosper. Be valiant. Keep your word, even to your enemies.'

Faculty said students can get their money back for the books, or stickers to cover up the quotes.

Quaker Valley School District officials told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: 'Though the content of the quotes was reviewed thoroughly, the attributions clearly were not.' 

Senior Dominique Cagliuso told the newspaper the content impacts the image of all her classmates.

The Hitler quote is 'Words build bridges into unexplored regions'
Stalin's statement is more menacing: 'Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, so why would we let them have ideas?'
The third quote is from al-Baghdadi: 'Be just: the unjust never prosper. Be valiant. Keep your word, even to your enemies'

Faculty said the quotes were reviewed thoroughly, but the attributions from the three evil leaders (pictured left to right is Hitler, Stalin and al-Baghdadi) were not 

'It makes the entire senior class look badly,' she said. 'It's also confusing how nobody caught it before it went out.

'It's one thing to have a silly quote from your favorite TV show, but to have a quote from dictators is disrespectful.'

Costs for the yearbooks range from $69 'but can be more than $100, depending on if the student opted to get their name engraved on the front,' she said.

The district is offering students a refund for those wishing not to keep the yearbooks and isoffering stickers to cover up 'any offensive quotations'm the district said in a statement.

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