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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

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
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
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
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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Group Person Suffering Yourself
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.
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Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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
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
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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Better Country Inspirational Myself Start World
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
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Hands Life Open
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience

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