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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.

Elie Wiesel

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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Angel Care Dangerous Demon Myself Word
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection World
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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Failure Injustice Power Protest Time
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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Human Mission Pain People Religion Suffering
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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Crime Human Humanity Represent
For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
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
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
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
For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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Imagination Invention Memories Myself People Time
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Exercise Himself Man Power Ultimate
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

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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