Author: Elie Wiesel

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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

- Elie Wiesel

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

- Elie Wiesel

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

- Elie Wiesel

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

- Elie Wiesel

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

- Elie Wiesel

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

- Elie Wiesel

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

- Elie Wiesel

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

- Elie Wiesel

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

- Elie Wiesel

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