Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
ELIE WIESELI don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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?
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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