A just man comes to Sodom hoping to save the city. He pickets. What else can he do? He goes from street to street, from marketplace to marketplace, shouting, “Men and women, repent. What you are doing is wrong. It will kill you; it will destroy you.” They laugh, but he goes on shouting, until one day a child stops him. “Poor stranger, don’t you see it’s useless?” “Yes,” the just man replies. “Then why do you go on?” the child asks. “In the beginning,” he says, “I was convinced that I would change them. Now I go on shouting because I don’t want them to change me.”
Elie Wiesel. Cited by Hope MacDonald, The Flip Side of Liberation: A Call to Traditional Values, pg.117-118
Startling, coming from Elie Wiesel. Wonder what those who claim him today would say, seeing as so many of them now in 2018 applaud the things Wiesel is condemning.
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