Elie Wiesel Quotes About Protest

Quotes about: 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

  Freedom, Philosophy, Military

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

• ... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too timid and powerless to take on all the guards of all the political prisons in the world; but in offering our solidarity to one prisoner we denounce all the tormentors. True, we are powerless against death; but as long as we help one man, one woman, one child live one hour longer in safety and dignity, we affirm man's [woman's] right to live.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Men, Offering

  Elie Wiesel (1993). “Sages and Dreamers: Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Portraits and Legends”, Touchstone Books

• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  Elie Wiesel

  Faith, Anger, Holocaust

  "Man in the News; Witness to Evil: Eliezer Weisel". www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1986.

• I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

  Elie Wiesel

  God, Silence, Quality

  Interview with John S. Friedman, The Paris Review, No. 91, Spring 1984.

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