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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Elie Wiesel

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
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
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
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
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
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
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
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
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
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESEL

Difference Integrity Myself Person

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

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