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

Elie Wiesel

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
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
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
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
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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Hate Health Persistence Religious
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
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
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Exercise Himself Man Power Ultimate
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
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Pain Prayer Role Tears Writing

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