“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
— Elie Wiesel
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (1986)
From Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, where the Holocaust survivor called for active resistance to injustice.
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