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Elie Wiesel on justice
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QUOTE: I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings
endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps
the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the
tormented.
[Nobel acceptance speech (1986)]
AUTHOR: Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (born
September 30, 1928) is a Romanian-born Jewish-American professor and political
activist. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on
his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration
camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner
Journal.
When Wiesel was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him
a "messenger to mankind," stating that through his struggle to come
to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the
utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps," as well as his
"practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel had delivered a
powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.
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