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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

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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Betrayal Decision Life Myself Remember Story Survive
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
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
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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Education Hate Repeat Violence
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Collection Faith Inferior Judgement Religion
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
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Face Human Important Philosophy Question
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
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
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
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman

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