I always believed that to listen to a witness is to become a witness.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.Elie Wiesel
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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Some stories are true that never happened.
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I am so in favor of being involved in other people's causes, other people's fights. If a people is oppressed, we must help those people free themselves.
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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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