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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Elie Wiesel

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
ELIE WIESEL

Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
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
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Believe God Illusion Man Spark
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
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
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Education Learning Substitute Word
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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Himself Place Refugee Time
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem
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
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
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Collection Faith Inferior Judgement Religion
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
ELIE WIESEL

Human Man Suffering Woman

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

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