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Elie Wiesel

No 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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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
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
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
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
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

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