No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
ELIE WIESELEternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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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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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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