When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
ELIE WIESELI decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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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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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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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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Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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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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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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