No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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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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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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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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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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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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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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