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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.

Elie Wiesel

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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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Angry Faith God Lost Moments Myself Reason
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Allow Difference Hate Love Power
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
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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Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection World
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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Crime Human Humanity Represent
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Face Human Important Philosophy Question
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

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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