Bearing Witness Quotes

Bearing Witness Quote of the day

As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.