Elie Wiesel Activist Quote Never Again
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- Elie Wiesel once said of getting involved in fighting injustice: "Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim"
- In his famous book "Night" he wrote of the horrors of concentration camps in Nazi Federal republic of germany
(CNN)Elie Wiesel moved his readers with his words. In his books and in his speeches, he eloquently spoke for a generation of wounded people, the traumatized survivors of the Holocaust.
The author was besides teacher and he tried to instill in people the desire to fight indifference, to fight for justice.
Here are quotes from Elie Wiesel'due south writings and remarks. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust activist died Sat at the age of 87.
"Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere." -- from "Night," published in France in 1958 as "La Nuit"
"Never shall I forget that night, the outset night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, vii times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my religion forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to grit. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to alive as long as God himself. Never." -- from "Night," first published in the United States in 1960
"We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything -- decease, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, nosotros were the only men on earth." -- from "Night"
"How does ane mourn for six million people who died? How many candles does one light? How many prayers does one recite? Practise we know how to remember the victims, their solitude, their helplessness? They left u.s. without a trace, and we are their trace." -- 2001 address at the Day of Remembrance, an annual commemoration of the Holocaust
"Permit us remember those who suffered and perished so, those who fell with weapons in their hands and those who died with prayers on their lips, all those who take no tombs: our heart remains their cemetery." -- 24-hour interval of Remembrance address, 2004
"How tin a citizen of a free state not pay attending? How can anyone, anywhere not feel outraged? How tin can a person, whether religious or secular, not exist moved by pity? And above all, how can anyone who remembers remain silent?" -- Darfur Emergency Summit, a meeting in 2004 organized by the American Jewish World Service and the U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum
"Can history e'er correct the extraordinary, profoundly agonizing injustice washed to my people, the Jewish people, and to all the other victims? Information technology could; has it? Will the earth e'er learn? We idea that if only we could speak, people would alter. Not plenty." -- Twenty-four hour period of Remembrance, 2009
"Was it yesterday or eternities ago, that some of us accept realized that human beings are capable of unspeakable brutality, that for killers it was homo to be inhuman? Are nosotros, therefore, to give up on humanity? Was it the men that we are? The human beings that we are? Were nosotros God'south victims or God's failure? Are nosotros God's prisoners? Are we God'due south orphans? I believe that, every twenty-four hours, it is incumbent upon united states to choose anew between deadly warfare among adults and the right of children to grow upwards without fright, with a grin on their face; between ugly hatred and the dignity of opposing information technology; between inflicting hurting and humiliation and inventing a beginning of solidarity and hope." -- Twenty-four hours of Remembrance, 2009
"I believe in language, although it has been distorted, corrupted, and poisoned past the enemy. I however cling to words, for it is we who decide whether they become spears or balm, carriers of bigotry or vehicles of understanding, whether they are used to expletive or to heal, whether they are here to crusade shame or to give comfort. I believe that ultimately it is nosotros who decide whether words are to be turned into poisonous adders or into peace offerings. I belong to a generation that has learned that whatever the question, despair is not an reply; whatever the experience, indifference is not an choice." -- Twenty-four hours of Remembrance, 2009
"We must e'er take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes nosotros must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human being nobility is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must -- at that moment -- become the center of the universe."-- Nobel Peace Prize acceptance oral communication, 1986
"Do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished? Do I have the right to take this great honor on their behalf? I do non. No i may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. And yet, I sense their presence. I always do -- and at this moment more than ever. The presence of my parents, that of my little sis. The presence of my teachers, my friends, my companions. ... This honor belongs to all the survivors and their children and, through us, to the Jewish people with whose destiny I take always identified." -- Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1986
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