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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Elie Wiesel

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
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
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
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
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Cherish Definition Gratitude Happiness Humanity Myself
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall
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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Crime Human Humanity Represent
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human 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
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking

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