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

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
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
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
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
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
Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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Better Break Decision Heart Broken Oneself Time
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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
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
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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Failure Injustice Power Protest Time
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
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

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

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