Bearing witness Quote by Judith Lewis Herman

Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is…

— Ellen Willis

“Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Aura is convinced that the entire country has succumbed to a collective amnesia. This is what happened in a society, where no one is…

— Cristina Garcia

“Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He…

— Elie Wiesel

“Communities must make decisions and establish institutions that foster forgetting as much as remembering. Shredding the personal files of old Stasi (the former Fast…

— Avishai Margalit

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of…

— Sholem Asch

“witness the moves in consciousness”

— Blissiness

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We…

— Bruce Schneier

Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and…

— Nazanin Boniadi

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

— Charles Baudelaire