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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

Elie Wiesel

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

Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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
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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Choice Freedom Myself Suffering
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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Betrayal Decision Life Myself Remember Story Survive
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
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?
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Appearance Beautiful Contradiction Human Illegal Right Wrong
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
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
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
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark 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
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
ELIE WIESEL

Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

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