We 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.
ELIE WIESELSilence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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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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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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