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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
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A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
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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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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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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
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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.
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
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