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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

One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Ash Dreams Forget God Moments Murder
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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Action Death Live Memories Responsibility
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
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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Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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God Mystery Oneself Religious Return Shaking
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
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
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
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection 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
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
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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Group Person Suffering Yourself
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Hands Life Open

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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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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