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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

Elie Wiesel

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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Difference Integrity Myself Person
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Exercise Himself Man Power Ultimate
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
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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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Collection Faith Inferior Judgement Religion
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem
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
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

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