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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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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Hate Health Persistence Religious
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
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
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
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
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
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
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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Action Death Live Memories Responsibility
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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Change Destiny Human Ourselves Power
You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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God Mystery Oneself Religious Return Shaking
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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Better Country Inspirational Myself Start World
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher

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