Elie Wiesel Quote
With the years and convulsions of history, the word-as reductionist as the dictionary itself-has undergone absurd metamorphoses. In some countries, they prefer the word destabilization. Poor countries no longer exist, just disadvantaged or underprivileged ones. We say brainwashing instead of propaganda. And now we refer to revolutions in fashion, music and electronics, where ink flows but not blood. The point is profit, not truth
Elie Wiesel
With the years and convulsions of history, the word-as reductionist as the dictionary itself-has undergone absurd metamorphoses. In some countries, they prefer the word destabilization. Poor countries no longer exist, just disadvantaged or underprivileged ones. We say brainwashing instead of propaganda. And now we refer to revolutions in fashion, music and electronics, where ink flows but not blood. The point is profit, not truth
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About Elie Wiesel
In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. He also advocated for many other causes like the state of Israel and against Hamas and victims of oppression including Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, the apartheid in South Africa, the Bosnian genocide, Sudan, the Kurds and the Armenian genocide, Argentina's Desaparecidos or Nicaragua's Miskito people.
He was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was involved with Jewish causes and human rights causes and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Wiesel was awarded various prestigious awards including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. He was a founding board member of the New York Human Rights Foundation and remained active in it throughout his life.