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A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

Elie Wiesel
Fighting, Men, Waiting
Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.193, Schocken

My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

Elie Wiesel
Inspirational, Graduation, Fighting
"Learning and Respect". Elie Wiesel's commencement speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, June 15, 1997.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Elie Wiesel
Fighting, Men, Adults

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.

Elie Wiesel
Children, Fighting, Racism
Source: www.nobelprize.org

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

Elie Wiesel
Memories, Fighting, Alive
Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth.

Elie Wiesel
Fighting, Racism, People
Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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