I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the. . . most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.
Everything we can dream can be real.
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true. ’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important. ’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.