Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
ELIE WIESELTo forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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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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