Speech On Tolerance

Around the world there is so racism so going on, people who are different are so getting target by the white man. We believe that racism is completing gone but it's not. Racism is coming back slowly as the years pass us. The only thing that we can do is to keep our bodies safe from all the danger that might happen. Ta-Nehisi Coates has been talking about keeping our bodies safe protected from the danger that happening around the world. People are getting targeted for being different or not being accepted for who they are as humans.

The nazis dehumanized the Jews so it would be easier to hurt them by treating them as if they were nothing. The nazi soldiers didn’t even call the Jews by their names; they called them by numbers. “ I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 60). The Nazis didn’t call them by name because it would have given them human characteristics. The only people that would call him Elie were his family and friends. When ever he was needed, they were called by their number, “ One day, when we had just returned from the warehouse, I was summoned by the block secretary: A-7713?” (69) The nazis didn’t give any respect to any of the Jews.

The German dictator of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler, once self-confessed, “if you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” Hitler used propaganda as a method to dehumanize Jews in the eyes of others. Dehumanization affected the entire nation: families were split apart. Also, Jews were forced to go into concentration camps or ghettos. Dehumanization affected the entire nation: families split apart and sent to ghetto camps. Many citizens ended up accepting the word of the Nazis, which caused a war to advance. Many citizens disagreed with the Nazi’s perception on Jews which caused a war to advance. But enduring the brunt of Nazis, who wanted to diminish the presence of Jews, was frequent throughout Elie

Today we’re faced with multiple forms of inequalities and injustices. None of them are in no way, shape or form are okay or justifiable. While we as a people are striving to deal with the obvious forms of injustices, there is another form that is a real quiet one, but it can be heard throughout the world that we are living in and is a severe problem that needs to be addressed. The type of injustice that I’m speaking on is called: Environmental Racism. This has been a definite issue that not only affects the environment, but it also has effects on communities, individuals and it effects the economic system in the long run as well. Environmental Racism needs to be brought up in conversations within our communities as well as our local governments, so they will not forget their remains a problem.

According to the text, Wiesel states, “ It was over. I had not realized it, but I had fainted.. ” ( 58) This shows that Elie was beaten to the point that he was unconscious. Beating someone who doesn’t have the ability to fight back, is against their human rights. They’re being forced out of their will to take the pain without being able to stick up for themselves. The Jews were beaten as if they were horses, not human . “ In dehumanizing others, we exclude them from the circle of moral obligation. We can then kill, oppress, and enslave them with impunity.” (Vox: The dark Psychology of dehumanization explained). This shows that as the process of Dehumanization gets worse so does the conditions. The Nazi’s started off by starving them, then beating

Imagine you are taken away from all of your family, except for your father, at 15-years-old. You are forced into concentration camps, surviving hard working conditions and low food supply. And why you might ask? Because someone decided that your race determines what your future will be. But this is not a story of racism, it is a story of conformity. The SS officers listened to a leader, which some of these officers being Jews themselves. They had to kill or be killed. The Jewish peoples were weak and threatened, but frankly conforming was best for their situation. Elie Wiesel supports this through his experiences. In Night, Elie says “For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” After surviving the Holocaust, Eliezer does just that. He was a witness for those who survived; He told those after him what happened in a first-hand account. In Night, Eliezer Wiesel shows how conformity is not always and bad thing, as sometimes it can save your life at times when individuality could get you killed.

The Nazi army dehumanized the Jewish people by depriving them of love. Elie, along with most of the other people in the camps, aren’t really accepted socially by anyone. They weren’t accepted as a person, and no one even knew them by their names; furthermore, they were known by the number they had tattooed on their arms. On page 42, Elie says “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.” By having their names taken away, the Jewish people had their social acceptance stripped from them. Also, their families were taken away from them, and they had to do whatever they could to stay with them. As Elie said on page 30, “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.” By separating the Jews from their families, they lost the love from them. By depriving the jews of social acceptance and their families, they hardly felt any

That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me...”.Even though he wanted to stand up for his father he didn’t do anything and watched Idek beating his father because he was too scared to get beaten by Idek,just like his father did. Other example might include on page 109,when at the end he stands up for his father against his neighbors and insults them; he says, “I began to insult his neighbors. They mocked me. I promised them bread, soup. They laughed. Then they got angry; they could not stand my father any longer, they said, because he no longer was able to drag himself outside to relieve himself.”.He stood up for his father but he didn’t dare to threaten the neighbors and be braver against them and protect his father from his neighbors. These were examples were Elie wanted to stand up for him self or his father but he didn’t or when he did he didn’t do it seriously, because he was too scared. If he stood up for himself/his father the kommandant might have killed him but at least he would’ve died with bravery and his daring. He should have been more serious and speak

Before Elie had been deported to the terrors of the Auschwitz, he was a completely different person. Some of the traits that he exhibited were hopeful, shielded, and religious. As Wiesel said in “Night” “There was joy, yes joy. People must have thought there could be no greater torment in God’s hell than that of being stranded here, on the sidewalk, among the bundles, in the middle of the street under the blazing sun.” (16) The town was not concerned about what was going on. They didn't believe that anything else would get worse. Elie and the people of his town were unable to accept the fact that anyone would do such a horrible deed. Elie and his neighbors were ecstatic because they thought nothing could get worse than it was already; what Hitler would do to them in the future, did not even seen imaginable. The victims believed that God would

Elie makes it very clear in his tone of determination and drive that he is very dedicated to his belief and that he has a great interest in it. Even though he knew of discrimination going around with being Jewish, he tried to ignore it and be optimistic when action should’ve been taken. Elie Wiesel and the others in his community were given a warning in the form of Moshe, when he came to town to tell everyone what happened to him after he got on the train,“And as for Moshe, he wept. 'Jews listen to me. It's all I ask of you. I don't want money or pity. Only listen to me,' he would cry between prayers at dusk and the evening prayers... II did not believe him myself. I would often sit with him...listening to his stories and trying my hardest to understand his grief. I felt only pity for him” (Night 5). Moshe desperately tries warning Elie that this will happen to him; he childishly ignores him. Even to the point where he doubted that Hitler wanted to exterminate him and the community. This just demonstrates how innocent Elie once was, and how much he had yet to realize and understand

In the book “Night” it shows another way of dehumanization by Nazis hitting the Jewish with batons. . “The Kapos were beating us again, I no longer felt the pain.” (Wiesel 36) Even later on in the book it shows many examples of them being beaten because the Nazis find joy in it. This proves that the Jews accepted their fate and were “programmed” to be slaves and were used to the pain. “I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip… Only the first really hurt.” (Wiesel 57) This shows how Elie accepts his role as creature in the concentration

At the young age of 15, Elie was forcibly moved into a ghetto and soon after taken to a concentration camp. Human minds do not fully develop until a person reaches about 25 years of age. (Sandra Aamodt, Brain Maturity Extends Well Beyond Teen Years, National Public Radio) Comprehending the Holocaust is impossible for anyone, which makes it that much more unimaginable and unbelievable to a child. It is quite simple for one to lose sight of himself when faced with a scene of pure death. It is fair to say that most people will do anything in return to live a while longer with loved ones. Therefore, morals are thrown out the window and traded

Within human nature there is a want to act against the corruption and evils of society. A human’s moral compass directs each person to fight against what is considered evil and to praise everything that is believed to be good. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (The Devil Came on Horseback). This means that in order for humans to rise above the evils of the world, good men have to take action against those who have committed a wrong. “Not a cry of distress, not a groan, nothing but a mass agony, in silence.”(pg.84). Due to Elie and the other Jews submission to the powerful Nazis, the dehumanization of the Jews remained

The reason why he thinks this is because Eli believes he is unworthy. All he looks forward to is bread and soup to eat. Dehumanization made Elie give up hope. Elie's father was beaten because other prisoners found him a nuisance. This hurt Elie and also made him not want to live anymore. Elie thinks, "One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live" (109). Dehumanization made other prisoners very hateful towards one other. This is why they beat Elie's father because they couldn't stand him any longer. Elie saw this and started losing hope of his father and also made him lose hope of living for himself. The Holocaust made Elie lose certainty in God, his self image, and losing ambition. During the Holocaust, the Germans dehumanize Eli. This made his belief in God diminish and was very angered when other Jews were praying to God. Elie believed he was undeserving of being worthy because of this, he thinks of himself as an animal. Losing ambition was the last for Eli because after seeing his father beaten while still sick, it made him realize he no longer cared what happened to him. All these events that happened during the Holocaust were a

Approximately 15% of the world’s population is, in a way, disabled. Whether it is a physical disability or a serious chronic disease, we have about one billion people in the world that live with a disability every day of their lives. It often occurs that these people are seen as an outcast of society; people that cannot live normal lives. It is important to realize that this is not true at all. People with disabilities are completely able to be part of the world. It is just the world’s duty to accept them.