One person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESELIn the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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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.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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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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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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