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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.

Elie Wiesel

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.
ELIE WIESEL

Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
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
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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Action Death Live Memories Responsibility
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Collection Faith Inferior Judgement Religion
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time
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
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
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
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
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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Group Person Suffering Yourself
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
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
ELIE WIESEL

Dust Hope Man

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