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Elie Wiesel Quotes about Children

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... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too

... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too timid and powerless to take on all the guards of all the political prisons in the world; but in offering our solidarity to one prisoner we denounce all the tormentors. True, we are powerless against death; but as long as we help one man, one woman, one child live one hour longer in safety and dignity, we affirm man's [woman's] right to live.

Children, Men, Offering

Elie Wiesel (1993). “Sages and Dreamers: Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Portraits and Legends”, Touchstone Books

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

Children, Believe, School

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

Children, Freedom, Integrity

Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

Children, Hate, Hatred

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Children, World, Changing The World

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.

Children, Hate, Men

"Making Sense of a Senseless World" by Emily Bennington, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

Children, Adults, Violence

"Open Heart". Book by Elie Wiesel, articles.chicagotribune.com. 2011.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

Children, Guilty

"Only the Guilty Are Guilty, Not Their Sons". www.nytimes.com. May 05, 2001.

When adults wage war, children perish.

Children, War, Adults

The Perils of Indifference, delivered 12 April 1999, Washington, D.C.

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

Children, Culture, Shields

Source: www.nobelprize.org

If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.

Children, Fighting, Racism

Source: www.nobelprize.org

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

Children, Believe, Single Child

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

Children, People, Civilized Nations

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.180, Schocken

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

Children, Memories, War

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

Children, Believe, Guilt

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.

Children, Years, Waiting

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

Children, Blue, Sky

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them, look, no matter what, you must have hope. You must. When I invoke Camus, who said when there is no hope, you must invent hope. . .hope is something that is not what God gives us. It's like peace. It's a gift that one can give to one another. Only another person can push me to despair. And only another person can push me to hope. Its my choice.

Teacher, Children, Giving

The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

Morning, Stars, Children

Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

Children, Home, Feet

Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.127, Schocken

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

Teacher, Children, Teaching

"Messenger to Mankind". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

Children, Hungry, Humiliated

Source: www.npr.org

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