In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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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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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.
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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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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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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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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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I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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