“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.”

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.

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.

Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

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.

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.