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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Elie Wiesel

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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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Choice Freedom Myself Suffering
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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Dreams Future Hope Live Man Reflection
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
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
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
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
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
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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Appearance Beautiful Contradiction Human Illegal Right Wrong
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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Baby Better Burn God Yourself

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