Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
ELIE WIESELOne person of integrity can make a difference.
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Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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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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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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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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