Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBEwas a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth30 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
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On a strictly military level, the operation is a success. For that, and for his brave decision to pursue peace even at present political cost, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon deserves praise. But starting now, Israelis and Palestinians must face the question: What next?
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I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
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Peace is our gift to each other.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.
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In any case, he had bungled his life. Bad husband, bad father, bad lover: failure all along the line . . . All the springs were broken. No more light anywhere . . . Everything he had tried to build had fallen apart. The little good he had done had resulted in fiasco. Whose fault could it be other than his own? . . . And anyone will tell you that if God Himself cannot undo what happened, still less can man.
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It's something that happens once in a lifetime, ... It would be silly on anyone's part to say it doesn't mean anything. It means something. It meant a lot of things. It was an important moment in my life.
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Never shall I forget that first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, ... Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
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We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn from our history.
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Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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At this moment, Israel fights for her existence,