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

Elie Wiesel

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
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
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
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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Education Hate Repeat Violence
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
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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Appearance Beautiful Contradiction Human Illegal Right Wrong
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
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
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Collection Faith Inferior Judgement Religion
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
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

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