Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELWhoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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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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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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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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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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