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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Elie Wiesel

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
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
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
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
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
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
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Life Meaning Obligation Ourselves Passive
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill

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