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

Elie Wiesel

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection World
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Gift God Kind Man Ourselves Peace Remember
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.
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Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
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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Human Mission Pain People Religion Suffering
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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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Believe God Illusion Man Spark
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
Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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Angel Care Dangerous Demon Myself Word
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
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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Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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Angry Faith God Lost Moments Myself Reason

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