“There is immense silent agony in the world, and the task of man is to be a voice for the plundered poor, to prevent the desecration of the soul and the violation of our dream of honesty: that morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 CE-1972 CE), Abraham Joshua Heschel was an American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and philosophers of the 20th century and professor of Jewish mysticism and was active in the civil rights movement.