Quotes
Eli Wiesel on Protest
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel
Read MoreNelson Mandela on Human Rights
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” – Nelson Mandela
Read MoreEleanor Roosevelt on Human Rights
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world… Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look…
Read MoreFred Rogers on Helping Children
“Anyone who does anything to help a child in [their] life is a hero to me.” – Fred Rogers
Read MoreHannah Arendt on Education
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from that ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable.
Read MoreSimon Wiesenthal: Holocaust Survivor and Nazi Hunter
About Simon Wiesenthal Simon Wiesenthal was born in Buczacz, Ukraine, in 1908. After surviving various labor camps and a forced march, Wiesenthal was liberated from Mathausen on May 5, 1945. At the time of liberation he weighed less than one hundred pounds. As soon as he was healthy enough, Wiesenthal began to compile evidence of…
Read MoreEli Wiesel: “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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