Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
ELIE WIESELThink higher, feel deeper.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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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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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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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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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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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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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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