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.
ELIE WIESELIn order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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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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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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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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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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