To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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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 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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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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