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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

Elie Wiesel

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
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Gift God Kind Man Ourselves Peace Remember
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Myself Person
I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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Choice Freedom Myself Suffering
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall
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
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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Betrayal Decision Life Myself Remember Story Survive
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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
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

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