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1、2022"The Perils of Indifference"_quot "The Perils of Indifference"由我整理，希望给你工作、学习、生活带来便利，猜你可能喜爱“quot”。 Elie Wiesel: The perils of Indifference<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office / Mr.president, Mrs.Clinton, members of Congre,
2、Ambaador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethes beloved <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags /Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy cal
3、led Buchenwald.He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart.He thought there never would be again.Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw.And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for
4、 their compaion.Though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know - that they, too, would remember, and bear witne. And now, I stand before you, Mr.president - Commander-in-Chief of the army that freed me, and tens of thousands of others - and I am filled with a
5、 profound and abiding gratitude to the American people.Gratitude is a word that I cherish.Gratitude is what defines the humanity of the human being.And I am grateful to you, Hillary, or Mrs.Clinton, for what you said, and for what you are doing for children in the world, for the homele, for the vict
6、ims of injustice, the victims of destiny and society.And I thank all of you for being here. We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium.What will the legacy of this vanishing century be? How will it be remembered in the new millennium? Surely it will be judged, and judged severely, in
7、 both moral and metaphysical terms.These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countle civil wars, the sensele chain of aainations (Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin), bloodbaths in Cambodia and Nigeria, India and pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea a
8、nd Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima.And, on a different level, of course, Auschwitz and Treblinka.So much violence; so much indifference. What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means no difference. A strange and unnatural state in which
9、the lines blur between light and darkne, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compaion, good and evil.What are its courses and inescapable consequences? Is it a philosophy? Is there a philosophy of indifference conceivable? Can one poibly view indifference as a virtue? Is it neceary at t
10、imes to practice it simply to keep ones sanity, live normally, enjoy a fine meal and a gla of wine, as the world around us experiences harrowing upheavals? Of course, indifference can be tempting - more than that, seductive.It is so much easier to look away from victims.It is so much easier to avoid
11、 such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes.It is, after all, awkward, troublesome, to be involved in another persons pain and despair.Yet, for the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbor are of no consequence.And, therefore, their lives are meaningle.Their hidden or even visi
12、ble anguish is of no interest.Indifference reduces the Other to an abstraction. Over there, behind the black gates of Auschwitz, the most tragic of all prisoners were the Muselmanner, as they were called.Wrapped in their torn blankets, they would sit or lie on the ground, staring vacantly into space
13、, unaware of who or where they were - strangers to their surroundings.They no longer felt pain, hunger, thirst.They feared nothing.They felt nothing.They were dead and did not know it. Rooted in our tradition, some of us felt that to be abandoned by humanity then was not the ultimate.We felt that to
14、 be abandoned by God was worse than to be punished by Him.Better an unjust God than an indifferent one.For us to be ignored by God was a harsher punishment than to be a victim of His anger.Man can live far from God - not outside God.God is wherever we are.Even in suffering? Even in suffering. In a w
15、ay, to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman.Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred.Anger can at times be creative.One writes a great poem, a great symphony.One does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the inju
16、stice that one witnees.But indifference is never creative.Even hatred at times may elicit a response.You fight it.You denounce it.You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response.Indifference is not a response.Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end.And, therefore, indifference is always the fr
17、iend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggreor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homele refugees - not to respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is t
18、o exile them from human memory.And in denying their humanity, we betray our own. Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment. And this is one of the most important leons of this outgoing centurys wide-ranging experiments in good and evil. In the place that I come from, society was comp
19、osed of three simple categories: the killers, the victims, and the bystanders.During the darkest of times, inside the ghettoes and death camps - and Im glad that Mrs.Clinton mentioned that we are now commemorating that event, that period, that we are now in the Days of Remembrance - but then, we fel
20、t abandoned, forgotten.All of us did. And our only miserable consolation was that we believed that Auschwitz and Treblinka were closely guarded secrets; that the leaders of the free world did not know what was going on behind those black gates and barbed wire; that they had no knowledge of the war a
21、gainst the Jews that Hitlers armies and their accomplices waged as part of the war against the Allies.If they knew, we thought, surely those leaders would have moved heaven and earth to intervene.They would have spoken out with great outrage and conviction.They would have bombed the railways leading
22、 to Birkenau, just the railways, just once. And now we knew, we learned, we discovered that the pentagon knew, the State Department knew.And the illustrious occupant of the White House then, who was a great leader - and I say it with some anguish and pain, because, today is exactly 54 years marking
23、his death - Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April the 12th, 1945.So he is very much present to me and to us.No doubt, he was a great leader.He mobilized the American people and the world, going into battle, bringing hundreds and thousands of valiant and brave soldiers in America to fight fascism,
24、to fight dictatorship, to fight Hitler.And so many of the young people fell in battle.And, neverthele, his image in Jewish history - I must say it - his image in Jewish history is flawed. <?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml / The depreing tale of the St.Louis is a case i
25、n point.Sixty years ago, its human cargo - nearly 1,000 Jews - was turned back to Nazi Germany.And that happened after the Kristallnacht, after the first state sponsored pogrom, with hundreds of Jewish shops destroyed, synagogues burned, thousands of people put in concentration camps.And that ship,
26、which was already in the shores of the United States, was sent back.I dont understand.Roosevelt was a good man, with a heart.He understood those who needed help.Why didnt he allow these refugees to disembark? A thousand people - in America, the great country, the greatest democracy, the most generou
27、s of all new nations in modern history.What happened? I dont understand.Why the indifference, on the highest level, to the suffering of the victims? But then, there were human beings who were sensitive to our tragedy.Those non-Jews, those Christians, that we call the Righteous Gentiles, whose selfle
28、 acts of heroism saved the honor of their faith.Why were they so few? Why was there a greater effort to save SS murderers after the war than to save their victims during the war? Why did some of Americas largest corporations continue to do busine with Hitlers Germany until 1942? It has been suggeste
29、d, and it was documented, that the Wehrmacht could not have conducted its invasion of France without oil obtained from American sources.How is one to explain their indifference? And yet, my friends, good things have also happened in this traumatic century: the defeat of Nazism, the collapse of commu
30、nism, the rebirth of Israel on its ancestral soil, the demise of apartheid, Israels peace treaty with Egypt, the peace accord in Ireland.And let us remember the meeting, filled with drama and emotion, between Rabin and Arafat that you, Mr.president, convened in this very place.I was here and I will
31、never forget it. And then, of course, the joint decision of the United States and NATO to intervene in Kosovo and save those victims, those refugees, those who were uprooted by a man, whom I believe that because of his crimes, should be charged with crimes against humanity. But this time, the world
32、was not silent.This time, we do respond.This time, we intervene. Does it mean that we have learned from the past? Does it mean that society has changed? Has the human being become le indifferent and more human? Have we really learned from our experiences? Are we le insensitive to the plight of victi
33、ms of ethnic cleansing and other forms of injustices in places near and far? Is todays justified intervention in Kosovo, led by you, Mr.president, a lasting warning that never again will the deportation, the terrorization of children and their parents, be allowed anywhere in the world? Will it disco
34、urage other dictators in other lands to do the same? 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.Their fate is always the most tragic, inevitably.When adults wage war, children perish.We see their faces, their eyes.Do we
35、hear their pleas? Do we feel their pain, their agony? Every minute one of them dies of disease, violence, famine. Some of them - so many of them - could be saved. 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
36、 these years of quest and struggle.And together we walk towards the new millennium, carried by profound fear and extraordinary hope. "The Perils of Indifferen elie wiesel: "the perils of indifference"mr.president, mrs.clinton, members of congre, ambaador holbrooke, excellencies, frien
37、ds:fifty-four years ago to the d. 我谈"矛"与"盾" 文章标题：我谈"矛"与"盾"我谈"矛"与"盾"最近,于丹教授的百家讲坛很火了一阵,说实话我这个已进入不惑之年的自以为也有点见识的人,倍感过去的夜郎自大.从字里行间都看. 老师读"表扬"与"指责"有感 老师读"表扬"与"指责"有感作者 | 夏吉萍学校 | 仁化县长江中心小学始终以来，我都和孩子们一样，喜爱形象生动
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