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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel
Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Elie Wiesel
Silence, Philosopher
Elie Wiesel (2013). “The Testament”, p.151, Souvenir Press

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Elie Wiesel
Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence
Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Elie Wiesel
Deeds And Words, Silence, Grace
Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Elie Wiesel
God, Silence, Quality
Interview with John S. Friedman, The Paris Review, No. 91, Spring 1984.

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