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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?

Elie Wiesel

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
But 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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Better Country Inspirational Myself Start World
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection World
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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Group Person Suffering Yourself
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Ash Dreams Forget God Moments Murder
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Exercise Himself Man Power Ultimate
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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Human Mission Pain People Religion Suffering
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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Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Allow Difference Hate Love Power
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past

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