Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”For more than a half-century, the Romanian-born Wiesel voiced his passionate beliefs to world leaders, celebrities and general audiences in the name of victims of... Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, whose death at the age of 87 was announced Saturday, summed up his mission in 1986 when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize: “Whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation, take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Source: Wall Street Journal July 02, 2016 22:18 UTC