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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Believe God Illusion Man Spark
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Pain Prayer Role Tears Writing
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
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
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
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
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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God Mystery Oneself Religious Return Shaking
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
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility

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