Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William Shakespeare, a bereaved father, said, Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er fraught heart, and bids it break. ... Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.Elie Wiesel
It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. Sometimes it takes time for the words to become more than words.
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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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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
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