First They Came Elie Wiesel Analysis

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‘’Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented’’, this was a quote said by Elie Wiesel during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Some people disagree with his quote. I personally agree with this statement. If you break the statement down then it begins to come together and make sense.

For starters, in the poem ‘’First they came’’ by Martin Niemöller the poem states, ’’Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.’’ This is an example of what Elie Wiesel said in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. This example shows that bad people came for Jews and the person in the poem did not speak up or do anything to try and stop the bad people,

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