Occupation: Professor Birth: September 30, 1928 Death: July 2, 2016
People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell..
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest..
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander..
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair..
Even in darkness it is possible to create light..
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant….
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation..
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on..
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other..
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a….
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppre….
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with t….
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim..
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it..
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, ….
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see..
One person of integrity can make a difference..
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'….
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And….
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 ca….
... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; b….