Modern

Elie Wiesel

1928–2016

Witness of Night

Neutrality helps the oppressor was said when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Night, decades earlier, had already refused the comfort of a balanced sentence about Auschwitz. He spent the later life saying that silence is a side.

In the canon

  1. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.Nobel lecture

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