Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
ELIE WIESELToday, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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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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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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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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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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