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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

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
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
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
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
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
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Ash Dreams Forget God Moments Murder
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
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
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
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
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
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Myself Person
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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.
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Group Person Suffering Yourself
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Life Meaning Obligation Ourselves Passive
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman

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