There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
One person of integrity can make a difference.
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them
Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.
I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
Think higher, feel deeper.
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.
I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
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They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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.
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
