I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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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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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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