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theuew: Elie Wiesel “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”

FakePeoplesBot: Sorry to bother you but, my name is Nicolas Phillips, and I am from Comoros! I love to listen to Trance music while I read my favorite book Night by Elie Wiesel

devils_harlot: Book: Night by Elie Wiesel Movie: Hard to pick just one but off the top of my head Shawshank redemption is always pretty high up TV show: Same as above so random choice, Game of Thrones (before it went to shit)

inspirationlisa: On page 227 of 450 of And the Sea is Never Full, by Elie Wiesel

BUjewishstudies: Please consider donating to the Elie Wiesel Center this Giving Day, coming up on Tuesday, April 11th.

ThrwLkngGlss: I can live as a Jew outside Israel, but not without Israel. ~Elie Wiesel

johnjsuarez: 26 years without justice for Danish student gunned down in Havana by a soldier "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel, Nobel Lecture 1986

KanjanSaqlain: "We must take sides.Neutrality helps the oppressor,never the victim.Silence encourages the tormentor,never tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders&sensitivities become irrelevant.” Elie Wiesel

YottaBook: “Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented” Elie Wiesel I ask my country's govt to act against the genocide that is being prepared against Armenians

Brookse32: For people enamored of Chris Hedges. Hedges has repeatedly supported Clinton's war on Yugoslavia & Serbia clip, Hedges: war on Serbia needed to stop 'genocide' of '250k people' (false see Michael Parenti on Yugoslavia) & hails Zionist warmonger Elie Wiesel

ReviewsInAPinch: 4 of 5 stars to Night by Elie Wiesel

Justice78602373: We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel Media Failed Us In SSRCase

HishelRemember: “Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented” Elie Wiesel I ask my country's govt to act against the genocide that is being prepared against Armenians

Bia__nca1: Title: "Night- Elie Wiesel ESSAY Case Study– (Sample essay assignment) Do My homework "Night," Elie Wiesel Analysis Overview Introduction In his novel "Night," Elie Wiesel

CerebralWisdom: Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. - Elie Wiesel

g2iafrance: “Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented” Elie Wiesel I ask my country's govt to act against the genocide that is being prepared against Armenians

YottaMining: “Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented” Elie Wiesel I ask my country's govt to act against the genocide that is being prepared against Armenians

MethodPod: New Episode! “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”― Elie Wiesel

CerebralWisdom: There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel

ppxppx: “Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented” Elie Wiesel I ask my country's govt to act against the genocide that is being prepared against Armenians

inspirationlisa: On page 209 of 450 of And the Sea is Never Full, by Elie Wiesel

CamGoede: 5 of 5 stars to Night by Elie Wiesel

ScozzariFrank: Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship...It is they who force the writer to tell their stories. —ELIE WIESEL—

Rifleman4WVU: “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, 1986

susiehodel: Love you Elie Wiesel

sooosoo9010: “What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.” –Elie Wiesel

bardruck: batboyblog: A Philadelphia high school librarian was ordered to remove a poster with an Elie Wiesel quote - Jewish Telegraphic Agency “A quote by the Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was briefly removed from the walls of a …

katoibrah: On 15th Feb 2022, Sanya Muhydin appeared before court martial. As Elie Wiesel famously said, "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." He courageously protested before Gen. Gutti's military court!

Bia__nca1: Title: "Night- Elie Wiesel ESSAY Case Study– (Sample essay assignment) Do My homework "Night," Elie Wiesel Analysis Overview Introduction In his novel "Night," Elie Wiesel

CUFI: "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Elie Wiesel

avantgardeblues: What if schools started making us watch 21 Jump Street instead of reading Night by Elie Wiesel because of this

luxeprogressive: I talked to my sisters in Florida today about their education. The 14 year old just finished Elie Wiesel’s Night (while it’s still legal) so that was a relief. And I explained the overall gist of the Holocaust to the 11 year old in case they’re not teaching it in a few years.

HeartlessHanz: “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel.

Abibliophobe27: 4 of 5 stars to Night by Elie Wiesel

AbdooullSG: “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel

Brian_Scoles: “I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night

dpgushee: Finding the moral moment—and the courage—to risk everything for the right reasons is a delicate course to navigate. /2 Lesson Learned from the Life of Elie Wiesel

pastortilley: “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” - Elie Wiesel

welfordwrites: Some stories are true that never happened. Elie Wiesel

CerebralWisdom: War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever. - Elie Wiesel

kashyap__90: "Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems." - Elie Wiesel

theknopfknows: 2022 Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture with Timothy Snyder

inspirationlisa: On page 192 of 450 of And the Sea is Never Full, by Elie Wiesel

Illumination100: ... “we are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel’s abuse of our history in these pages to justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the murder of more than 2,000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of children.”

WokeTemple: Racism has caused oppression, wars and genocide. It's a serious subject that deserves serious scholarship. And about that important subject, this is what our American universities have given us. And in the name of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

Reagan_Library: Photograph – President Reagan sits with Elie Wiesel while Sidney Yates speaks during a ceremony to honor victims of the Holocaust in the East Room 04/30/1981

LifeCoachMary: The enemy of life…is indifference. – Elie Wiesel

inspirationlisa: On page 184 of 450 of And the Sea is Never Full, by Elie Wiesel

JewishNwsReport: Elie Wiesel Quote Removed From Library

VINneias: Elie Wiesel Quote Removed From Library

95star: That is wrong. As Elie Wiesel said it best "Neutrality never helps the oppressed, only the oppressor" we need to be aware of what is going on not just here but internationally because that has a ripple effects on what goes on here and and how we can nip it in the bud

sabyasachisadh6: Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel

109Godly: "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time." - Night, Elie Wiesel -

109Godly: "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. " - Night, Elie Wiesel -

MarioWhoWrites: Moving some boxes around today, I picked up a book I bought but never started -- Elie Wiesel's "From the Kingdom of Memory". Time vanished into a vortex; when I finally put it down I felt transformed, like I had remembered how to breathe again. I forgot literature could do that

MarieGobeille: 2022 Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture with Timothy Snyder

Geaniene: Democrats need to read "Night" by Elie Wiesel. Pay attention to Moshe the beadle.

Bia__nca1: Title: "Night- Elie Wiesel ESSAY Case Study– (Sample essay assignment) Do My homework "Night," Elie Wiesel Analysis Overview Introduction In his novel "Night," Elie Wiesel

randomquotebot1: Elie Wiesel -> “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

aghastone: At what point does Nazi informant on Hungarian Jews and thus party to holocaust George Soros answer for his apparent crimes? He states in interviews he’d do it again as others would have done it and beat him to his fees. Shame no one carries on Elie Wiesel’s heroic work!

CTForum: 20 years go, we were honored to have Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel at The CT Forum. We can't think of a better way to commemorate and honor Holocaust Remembrance Day than listening to his incredibly moving sentiments about the danger of indifference.

AntisemitismEye: It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel. Elie Wiesel

abbdkayyum: House China panel turns focus to plight of Uyghurs

DTNEtiquette: The opposite of love is not hatred, but indifference. ~ Elie Wiesel

PowerON_SA: "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

politicongress: Mike Gallagher will open Thursday night's hearing on the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims with a video from Elie Wiesel's son.

ktullymcmanus: New: New: Mike Gallagher will open tonight's hearing on the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims with a video from Elie Wiesel's son.

judystout1: Elie Wiesel: "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure"

Olivia_Beavers: He'll play a video where Elisha Wiesel, son of Auschwitz survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, will tell hearing watchers: “We may say ‘Never Again.’ But genocide is, in fact, happening again. And it is happening on our watch."

EalainGanAinm: “Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving, and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.” -Elie Wiesel

MariaKiguthi: 3 of 5 stars to The Sonderberg Case by Elie Wiesel

stargazzr_: recently learned that Elie Wiesel was a professor at BU when my dad went there and he threw my dad out of his office for his (my dad’s) socialist politics

AxelDeussen: “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

EFEPAUL: "The great historian Shimon Dubnov served as our guide and inspiration. Until the moment of his death he said over and over again to his companions in the Riga ghetto: “Yidden, shreibt un fershreibt” (Jews, write it all down). His words were heeded." - Elie Wiesel

CerebralWisdom: War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever. - Elie Wiesel

MariaKiguthi: 3 of 5 stars to Hostage by Elie Wiesel

DanielMillerEsq: I'm glad Elie Wiesel isn't alive to see this. But we owe it to him and the remaining survivors, as well as the six million who perished, not to turn a blind eye to this disgusting behavior. The modern day GOP is an existential threat to American Jews and American democracy.

ariel_haivri: By “all her Jewish friends” she means two people who read Elie Wiesel once.

kaywy: “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented” ~ Elie Wiesel

thoughtsRseeds: “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

GrandTurion: ...and worried about "anti-anti-semitism" (sic), while deriding Elie Wiesel as a "professional Holocaust survivor" (sic)

GrandTurion: Of course Rothbard wouldn't like Elie Wiesel. Of course.

MariaKiguthi: 3 of 5 stars to Open Heart by Elie Wiesel

Justice4SSRBac1: We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel Power Blocking SSRCase

Mediterranean_Z: Not Elie Wiesel!!! Yikes

shoutyshouty1: Here's a painting by Elie Wiesel of Germans throwing live babies into a bonfire. So presumably the midwifes help them give birth then handed them to the guards to burn. How evil is that?

orlandoribbons: “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” -Elie Wiesel

SunjeevBery: People who survive extraordinary horrors are not automatically saints. That moment when Elie Wiesel endorsed the George W. Bush invasion of Iraq.

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

maaaaaa6658: “What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.” –Elie Wiesel

vladdieverse: "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." ~ Elie Wiesel

NicholasGuyatt: Elie Wiesel, Paul Berman, Joseph Nye et al., "Liberals for War," 14 March 2003

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