Elie Wiesel Quotes

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

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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

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

Silence = Death

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

I want to thank the fans across the country who have supported me in this effort to fight for equality and justice. I want to thank those that have dedicated their lives to this fight, as I know that it is not easy. And I want to challenge those who stay silent to be courageous and use your platforms to become part of the solution. God Bless.

I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.