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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel

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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Desire Ideas Memories People Shadow Surround Thinking Truth
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
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
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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Change Destiny Human Ourselves Power
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
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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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Cherish Definition Gratitude Happiness Humanity Myself
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Hands Life Open
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
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

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

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