I\u2019ve never met a more endearing, modest, passionate person. His emphasis on the idea of telling a story was enriching, which makes it funny that Professor Johnston\u2019s friend Wayne Flynt said the same thing. A person\u2019s story is vital, and when someone tells you his story, you have a responsibility to continue telling it as well, because now his story is part of yours\u2014and once a story is lost, it\u2019s as if the person and what he went through is too.<\/p>\n
His passion and admiration for children always stayed with me, because I too completely adore children viewing the world with their expansive imaginations. So Elie Wiesel completely inspired me with his anger and pain regarding children\u2019s youth and innocence being taken away too soon, something he experienced firsthand. There are many stories, life lessons, quotes he shared\u2014but the most influential is the idea that indifference is probably the worst disease, thinking, feeling there is; because when you do nothing, say nothing, you help the oppressor!<\/p>\n
\u2014Brianna Dickinson \u201913<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]I remember the first day of class when Elie Wiesel walked in. We were completely stunned and silent, not expecting him on the first day. We went around introducing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-10-18"},"yoast_head":"\n