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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Elie Wiesel

In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
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
For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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Imagination Invention Memories Myself People Time
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
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
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
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
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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Angry Bite Cry Day Lips Wait
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
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
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
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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Better Country Inspirational Myself Start World

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

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