Elie Wiesel Quote in Every day scata

This is what I’ve been posting on facebook. This is what is “too deep” and gets me unfriended. People refuse to see the truth, the parallels, the fact that history is on it’s way to repeating itself, just in a different country.

”I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
I remember he asked his father, ‘Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?’
And now the boy is turning to me. ‘Tell me,’ he asks, ‘what have you done with my future, what have you done with your life?’ And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are accomplices.
And then I explain to him how naive we were, that the world DID know and remained silent. And that is why 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. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national boarders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and woman are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must–at that moment–become the center of the universe.” ~Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Author of the book Night. I believe everyone should read it.