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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

Elie Wiesel

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
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
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
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
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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Education Learning Substitute Word
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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Desire Ideas Memories People Shadow Surround Thinking Truth
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
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
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
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Hands Life Open
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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Better Country Inspirational Myself Start World
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering

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