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Elie Wiesel

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
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
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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Hate Health Persistence Religious
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
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
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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Baby Better Burn God Yourself
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Gift God Kind Man Ourselves Peace Remember
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
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
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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Education Hate Repeat Violence
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
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
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
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman

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