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Elie Wiesel: The Perils of Indifference
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Anaphora
"They would have spoken out with great outrage and conviction. They would have bombed the railways leading to Birkenau, just the railways, just once."
"Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end."
"This time, we do respond. This time, we intervene."
"What about the children? Oh, we see them on television, we read about them in the papers, and we do so with a broken heart."
"But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it."
Anecdote
Intro to the speech
Elie Wiesel: The Perils of Indifference
Muselmanner
St. Louis
Antithesis
"What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil."
"And so, once again, I think of the young Jewish boy from the Carpathian Mountains.
He has accompanied the old man I have become throughout these years of quest and struggle. And together we walk towards the new millennium, carried by profound fear and extraordinary hope."
SOAPStone
Subject: Indifference of People
Occasion: Lecture Series, Kosovo
Audience: American Government and Public
Purpose: Warn against Indifference
Speaker: Holocaust Survivor, Drawing from experiences
Tone: Serious, measured,
experienced, hopeful,
questioning.
"We know that the Nazis were able to pursue their crimes against humanity precisely because they were able to limit the circle of those defined as humans. The mentally ill, the infirm, gypsies, Jews - all were identified as lives unworthy of life. And this process of dehumanizing comes from the darkest regions of the human soul, where people first withdraw understanding, them empathy, and finally personhood. Now, this phenomenon of indifference, this human capacity for evil we know too well is not unique to that time and place in Nazi Germany."
Background
1999, April 12th
Elie Wiesel- Holocaust Survivor
Speech to American Government
Stirred by events in Kosovo