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.
ELIE WIESELA religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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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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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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