Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

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

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

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

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