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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Elie Wiesel

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 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
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
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
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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Change Destiny Human Ourselves Power
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
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
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

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

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