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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Elie Wiesel

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
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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Human Mission Pain People Religion Suffering
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 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
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
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Ash Dreams Forget God Moments Murder
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
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
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Believe God Illusion Man Spark
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Pain Prayer Role Tears Writing
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

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