One person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESELEven in darkness it is possible to create light.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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