Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
ELIE WIESELFor 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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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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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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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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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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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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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