“When a state declares war on individuals, that means that something is wrong with that state. Then we have to find another concept of sanctuary. What is it? Here again I come to my Jewish tradition, and with delight I discover that when we speak of sanctuary in the Jewish tradition, it refers to human beings. Sanctuary, then, is not a place. Sanctuary is a human being. Any human being is a sanctuary. Every human being is a dwelling of God – man or woman or child, Christian or Jewish or Buddhist. Any person, by virtue of being a son or daughter of humanity, is a living sanctuary whom nobody has the right to invade.”
From The Refugee by Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016), writer, holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, born on this day
Chorlton Unitarians 