All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
ELIE WIESEL
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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Elie WieselElie Wiesel For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel 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.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Elie WieselElie Wiesel In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel 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.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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