All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
ELIE WIESELMankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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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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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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