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Author and human rights activist, Elie Wiesel dies at 87

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Elie was a Nobel Prize laureate and a holocaust survivor

Elie Wiesel, who dedicated his life to fighting for peace and human rights died at the age of 87, on Saturday. His family said he died peacefully after suffering from a long illness.

In a statement released by the writer’s foundation, Elie’s now widowed wife, Marion said “My husband was a fighter. He fought for the memory of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and he fought for Israel. He waged countless battles for innocent victims regardless of ethnicity or creed.”

Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, for his far-reaching role in speaking against violence, racial discrimination, and repression. In 1960; he released his first book- ‘Night’, a memoir of his experience in the Nazi concentration camps. The book was originally published in French as “La Nuit,” and received worldwide attention and acclaim.

Elie’s use of the term Holocaust helped solidify the word’s association with the mass atrocities inflicted by the Nazis upon the Jews.
During his lifetime, Elie wrote 57 books, mostly in English and French.
US President Barack Obama cited him as “one of the great moral voices of our time”.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu also called Elie a “master of words.” Wiesel died in the US, where he been living there since the 1960’s.
Here are some of the most profound words authored by Elie Wiesel which will move your heart:

“For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”

“Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, truer. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn’t know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.”

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

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” “There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.”

“Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.”

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