Elie Wiesel's Arousing Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

In his arousing Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech in 1986, Elie Wiesel pronounces the importance of “taking sides” and “interfering” when a time of human suffering is upon the world. He is undeniably correct. People need to stand up for what is right in this world, and acknowledge the wrong; they need to take an issue of human persecution and make it “the center of the universe”. People should fight for others who cannot fight for themselves. They should be the voice others do not have. The Jews did not have much of a voice when they were being loaded up into train cars and sent to concentration camps; however, the Germans that were not Jews had a voice in the world. So why did those Germans not stand up for their countrymen, their neighbors,