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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.

Elie Wiesel

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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Angry Faith God Lost Moments Myself Reason
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Pain Prayer Role Tears Writing
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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Human Mission Pain People Religion Suffering
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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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Betrayal Decision Life Myself Remember Story Survive
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
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
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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Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Exercise Himself Man Power Ultimate

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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