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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Elie Wiesel

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
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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Failure Injustice Power Protest Time
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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Betrayal Decision Life Myself Remember Story Survive
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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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Action Death Live Memories Responsibility
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
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Dreams Future Hope Live Man Reflection
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
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
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time

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