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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
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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Better Break Decision Heart Broken Oneself Time
You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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God Mystery Oneself Religious Return Shaking
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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Angry Faith God Lost Moments Myself Reason
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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Desire Ideas Memories People Shadow Surround Thinking Truth
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Pain Prayer Role Tears Writing
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
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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Hate Health Persistence Religious
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

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