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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.

Elie Wiesel

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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Failure Injustice Power Protest Time
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Ash Dreams Forget God Moments Murder
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Face Human Important Philosophy Question
Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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Angry Bite Cry Day Lips Wait
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
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
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
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
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
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
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
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
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

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.

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