Sunday, July 29, 2012

Neutral Is Not My Color

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
- Elie Wiesel in his Nobel Acceptance Speech, delivered in Oslo on December, 10, 1986
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