To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
ELIE WIESELThink higher, feel deeper.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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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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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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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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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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