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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

Elie Wiesel

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
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
For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
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
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
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
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
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Exercise Himself Man Power Ultimate
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
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
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

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