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...Early in the evening, I got on a bicycle and rode to a lecture hall where Elie Wiesel was to speak - as he has each fall for 25 years at Boston University - on biblical themes...
...Elie Wiesel, my teacher in these matters, warns: "Don't compare." But evil has its universality, and in the lynching photographs - a ghastly race-based "American Death Trip" of snapshots assembled mostly from the first several decades of the 20th century - we are in the presence of unmistakable evil, unmistakably American...
...even aware that at this moment 30 teenage girls, and nine of the smartest teenage boys in the world, are sitting in the cold on the sidewalk outside 'N Sync's hotel just so they can scream at them as they are shuttled into a car. Elie Wiesel may have a Nobel Peace Prize, but he never had that...
...Wiesel asks and implores, "Why is there so much violence, so much hate? How is it conceived, transmitted, fertilized, nurtured? As we face the disquieting, implacable rise of intolerance and fanaticism on more than one continent, it is our duty to expose the danger. By naming it. By confronting it." One can only hope that the world can find the courage to do as he suggests...
...Wiesel has worked on behalf of Holocaust survivors and on the behalf of victims of human rights abuses around the world. He has defended Israel and the Jewish people. He has denounced fanaticism and intolerance. He has not always succeeded in changing the views of others, but he has always tried. Wiesel's thoughts reflect the sadness of a life spent fighting an adversary that by all logic should never have existed and yet continues to roam the earth undefeated. His words are moving and inspiring, hopeful...