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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.

Elie Wiesel

The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Face Human Important Philosophy Question
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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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Hate Health Persistence Religious
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Allow Difference Hate Love Power
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
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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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
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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Better Country Inspirational Myself Start World
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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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Myself Person
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
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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Believe God Illusion Man Spark
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person

I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.

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