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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.

Elie Wiesel

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
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
I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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Baby Better Burn God Yourself
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
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
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Life Meaning Obligation Ourselves Passive
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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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Choice Freedom Myself Suffering
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time

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