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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

Elie Wiesel

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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Education Hate Repeat Violence
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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Desire Ideas Memories People Shadow Surround Thinking Truth
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Face Human Important Philosophy Question
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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Angry Faith God Lost Moments Myself Reason
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Life Meaning Obligation Ourselves Passive
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
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
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive

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