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.
ELIE WIESELNo 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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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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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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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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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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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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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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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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