Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
ELIE WIESELBut where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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