Students from St. Scholastica's College are seen with tape over their mouths during a June 27 rally in Manila, Philippines. More than 1,000 students joined the protest outside of the all-girls school to voice outrage over the kidnapping of more than 200 girls from a Nigerian school in April by Boko Haram Islamist militants, a school official said. (CNS photo/Erik De Castro, Reuters)
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world. We may be powerless to open all the jails and free all the prisoners, but by declaring our solidarity with one prisoner, we indict all jailers. None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims."
- Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, from his Nobel Lecture December 11, 1986, published in Nobel Lectures, Peace 1981-1990, ed.-in-charge Tore Frängsmyr, ed. Irwin Abrams, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997.
