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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
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
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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Baby Better Burn God Yourself
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
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
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
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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Education Hate Repeat Violence
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
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
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.
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Angry Bite Cry Day Lips Wait
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill 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

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