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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Elie Wiesel

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
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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Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection World
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
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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Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Cherish Definition Gratitude Happiness Humanity Myself
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
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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Better Break Decision Heart Broken Oneself Time
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
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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Action Death Live Memories Responsibility
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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Human Mission Pain People Religion Suffering
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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Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Life Meaning Obligation Ourselves Passive
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

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