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

Elie Wiesel

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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Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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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Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall
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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Difference Integrity Myself Person
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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Allow Difference Hate Love Power
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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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
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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Crime Human Humanity Represent
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Gift God Kind Man Ourselves Peace Remember
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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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Himself Place Refugee Time
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Hands Life Open
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
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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God Mystery Oneself Religious Return Shaking
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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Baby Better Burn God Yourself
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence

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