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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Elie Wiesel

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
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
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
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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Failure Injustice Power Protest Time
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
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
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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Choice Freedom Myself Suffering
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
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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
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
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Education Learning Substitute Word
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
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time

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