Night

by Elie Wiesel

 

 

Lit.Log:

 

Part 1: Pre-reading Activity

 

Click and listen to the story  "A God Who Remembers" by Elie Wiesel.

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What is the main lesson Wiesel is trying to convey to his listeners?

 

 

 

Silence

Famous quotations

 

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself".

Harvey Fierstein

 

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people".

Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death".

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

"To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men".

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence".

Leonardo da Vinc

 

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented".

Elie Wiesel

 

"Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth,

and live the truth,

despite attempts to silence our thoughts,

feelings,

and past experiences".

Zainab Salbi

"To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent".

Plato

 

"Never let anyone silence your voice".

Jurnee Smollett

 "To silence criticism is to silence freedom".

Sidney Hook

 

"We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction".

Marco Rubio

 

"…some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice".

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

 

"Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated".

Gloria Estefan

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends".

Martin Luther King Jr

 

"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph".

Haile Selassie

 

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke