Elie Wiesel Quotes
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
Wiesel, Elie. All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs. Knopf, 1995, p. 74.
It is surprising that these ideas would come from one of the most autocratic powerful monarch in the world at the time. However there were many very liberal influences on her from Europe. This set of proposals she even sent to Voltaire to get his feedback and criticism.
A fatwa is a religious legal ruling.
Under the power of excommunication, the children of the offender were also shunned and penalized, losing not only religious privileges but many civil rights as well. In 1690 “civil pains and penalties consequent upon excommunication” were abolished in Scotland.
This quotation has become an operational principle of most justice systems of industrial democracies.
Lieutenant Redulivitch, an Air Force officer, was discharged from the Air Force on the grounds that he was a security risk. The Air Force stated that they had no reason to question his loyalty, but that the Lieutenant’s father read communist literature and associated with suspected communists, but refused to provide any evidence to the press, the Lieutenant or the father. The quotation illustrates the degree that McCarthyism and the Red Scare had twisted the national security apparatus of the nation.
Texas executes more people than the rest of the United States does. However, just before the debate an investigation disclosed 56 recent cases in Texas where the “criminals” were completely exonerated based on the work of some volunteer attorneys and law students. They were all released from jail where many had served decades for crimes they did not commit. 5 were released from Death Row—awaiting to be executed. See {635339}.
Mehmet Talaat Pasha was one of the national leaders who adopted the policy of extermination of the Armenians. The Christian Armenians, a minority in Turkey and its lands, were discriminated against like other non-Muslim minorities in the Ottoman Empire. But during the Turkish War with Russia, some Armenians defected and served on the Russian side. Many Turkish citizens took revenge on Armenians by means of murder and torture. Soon, the extermination of the Armenians became the official “Young Turk” government policy.
Many children were born in the United State from parents who were in America without any documentation or were brought to America as a child. America is the only country they have ever known and they were being deported, along with their parents until President Obama put a stop to their deportation. The children born in the United States were citizens who were being deported until the practice stopped.
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
