There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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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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Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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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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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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