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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.

Elie Wiesel

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
For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Gift God Kind Man Ourselves Peace Remember
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
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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Hate Health Persistence Religious
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
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
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
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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Change Destiny Human Ourselves Power
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Forever Moments Myself Spark Time

My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.

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