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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Elie Wiesel

One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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Appearance Beautiful Contradiction Human Illegal Right Wrong
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
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
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Dreams Future Hope Live Man Reflection
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
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
I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
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
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Face Human Important Philosophy Question
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
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

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