Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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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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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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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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