I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

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

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

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 those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

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

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

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.

When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois