They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

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

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

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

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

I radiated with all the stars in the night sky and the courage of a thousand men ran through my veins.

My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

Mind you, I'm going into the bedroom now to talk things over with Heavenly Father

Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.

I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.

Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.