I just finished reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel. It was an amazing book. I finished it in 3 days, on and off. It is a short and easy to understand book. Had to read it for school, but whatevs. Still enjoyed it :).
I love quotes! And as this blog processes, I think you'll notice :).
So I got some quotes from the book. Here they are:
"Tell me," he asks, "what have you done with my future, what have you done with your life?"-118
And then I explain[ed] to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.-118
There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for attention: victims of hunger, of racism and political oppression...-119
Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free. How can one not be sensitive to their plight?.Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere... The refugees and their misery. The children and their fear. The uprooted and their hopelessness. Something must be done about their situation.-119
But I have faith... Without it no action would be possible. And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.-120
There is so much to be done, there is so much that can be done. One person-a Raoul Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer, a Martin Luther King Jr.-one person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, out life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.-120
We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.-120
Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.-120
So these are some quotes. Touching, but probably isn't the most entertaining thing to read out there. I'll try to make my blog a bit more entertaining, later :). But because I just finished the book, I thought I should write something about it :P.
Lots of love.
-J
