People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

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 best education makes our minds more fertile.

In the grace of the Truth, re-examine all that you have been told.

Men can never have the true power they were endowed with by creation, until they respect and protect the women and children of the world.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Joy blossoms in our hearts not as we try harder and harder to grow, but as we see more clearly the depth of our sin and understand more fully our helplessness.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

This immigration business has been going on in the UK much in advance of the European Union making an issue of it.

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.