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It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Judaic Scholar
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You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
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Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
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Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
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He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
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I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
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It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
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I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.
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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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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.
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