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1 " In the knowing, there was peace. "
― Jennifer A. Nielsen , Resistance
2 " May we never forget. May we live with honor at all times, regardless of our circumstances. And may we choose love, a weapon that will defeat hate every single time. Love is the resistance. "
3 " We’ll all die one day—no one escapes that fate. Our only decision is how we live before that day comes. "
4 " No, Chaya. As much as the Nazis want to take our lives, they want to take our faith too. We fight for one, Avraham's friends fight for the other." "What good is faith if you're dead?""What good is life without faith?" A soft sigh escaped her lips, but she remained more patient with me than I ever was with her. "We'll all die one day–no one escapes that fate. Our only decision is how we live before that day comes. Our path requires courage, but so does theirs. Both paths are ways to resist. "
5 " But there is something a human can do that an animal never can. Create art. "
6 " We will not win, we will not get glory, not in this life, anyway. We are fighting for the three lines of history just so that it will not be said that our youth went like sheep to the slaughter. "
7 " There will come a time when everyone must account for their actions during this war. Some will be judged as evil, others as complacent. But I suspect the greatest number of us will fall to our knees and weep when we discover the full extent of the crimes being committed here. "
8 " Never believe the best of what anyone says about a person, nor the worst. "
9 " Let us be foolish, then, because if we save even one life, we are the best of fools. "
10 " We've given our lives to God. Whatever happens to us now is all right. "
11 " Enough of us must survive the war to tell our stories, and every story will matter. When they remember our stories, they will forget their hatred. "
12 " I never let myself believe in a future where evil wins. Because if I do, then everything I've done, everything you and I are still doing, is for nothing. We need to believe in a future where love is stronger than hate. Where peace is normal. "
13 " The resistance was not about who lived and who died. It was about the way we lived, and the way we would die when our time came. "
14 " There is no Jewish problem. The problem is with the rest of us who pass beside the ghetto walls with a fresh loaf of bread, knowing the people are starving on the other side, and yet we do nothing. "
15 " They had not just taken pieces of his beard. They had robbed my father of his dignity, which was far worse. "
16 " He was one of the good ones . . I intended to remember Wit Golinski for as long as I lived, to remind myself that wherever there was evil, good men and women would also rise up to fight it. "
17 " The Nazis murder us many times over. They take our ability to worship properly - a spiritual death. They separate our families - another death there. They kill our dignity, our will to live, and finally they take our lives. The question isn't whether my family is gone. It's only a matter of how many deaths they've suffered so far. "
18 " There were good and bad people everywhere. The more I embraced those who were good, the more I hoped to dispel the evil from my life. "
19 " I have seen too much of a war that reveals people for who they truly are. . . Some are revealed as cowards, others as villains or thieves. . . But I hope you have also seen those with uncommon courage, those who will look evil in the face and say, 'This is where it ends. "
20 " We proved that there was value in faith. there was value in loyalty. And that a righteous resistance was victory in itself, no matter the outcome. We got our three lines of history. "
