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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.

Elie Wiesel

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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Crime Human Humanity Represent
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
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
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
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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Himself Place Refugee Time
Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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Angel Care Dangerous Demon Myself Word
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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Better Break Decision Heart Broken Oneself Time
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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God Mystery Oneself Religious Return Shaking
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Education Learning Substitute Word
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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Group Person Suffering Yourself

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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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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