Elie Wiesel Quotes

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.

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

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

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

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

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!

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

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.

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

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

I cannot sit by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.

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

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

If we won't fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.