To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
ELIE WIESELAll collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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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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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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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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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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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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