Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
ELIE WIESELAll collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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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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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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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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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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