Elie Wiesel urges human beings to fight off indifference. She claims that indifference is the lack of a response and emotion. It is nothingness and it does not benefit the human race but rather slows down the progress that could be made because it ends a movement. Wiesel goes further to say that even anger and hatred are of greater use than indifference meaning that any emotion a human can show, they should show.

Wiesel is incorrect in her statement. In the book Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, Ann Bausum notes that the observers of the Stonewall bar arrests at first showed indifference towards the arrests being made by the police. The crowd surrounding the bar were stirred up by one of the arrestees who was angered by