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.
ELIE WIESELWe must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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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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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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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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