“I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”

“They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)”

“Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.”

“No human being is illegal.”

“In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.”

“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them”

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.”