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.
ELIE WIESELEducation in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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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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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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