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"Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words"
"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."
"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."
"Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself"
"For the dead and the living, we must bear witness."
"Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees."
"The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence."
"Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it."
"In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on."
"A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent."
"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."
"Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war"
"One person of integrity can make a difference."
"Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself."
"In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see."
"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."
"In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God."
"Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future."
"Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?"
"I write to understand as much as to be understood."