Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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