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We thought it would be enough to tell of the tidal wave of hatred which broke over the Jewish people for men everywhere to decide once and for all to put an end to hatred of anyone who is 'different' - whether black or white, Jew or Arab, Christian or Moslem - anyone whose orientation differs politically, philosophically, sexually.
Elie Wiesel -
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
Elie Wiesel
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
Elie Wiesel -
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
Elie Wiesel -
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Elie Wiesel -
After the war we reassured ourselves that it would be enough to relate a single night in Treblinka, to tell of the cruelty, the senselessness of murder, and the outrage born of indifference: it would be enough to find the right word and the propitious moment to say it, to shake humanity out of its indifference and keep the torturer from torturing ever again.
Elie Wiesel -
They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.
Elie Wiesel -
Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations - not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.
Elie Wiesel