Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor, and author of Night, delivered the commencement address at Dartmouth College in 2006. Speaking as both a teacher and a witness, Wiesel offered a profound counterpoint to the suspicion and fear of difference that he had seen destroy civilizations. Where many traditions treat the 'other' with suspicion, Wiesel turned this on its head. The other, he insisted, is not an enemy but a companion, an ally, and sometimes a friend. More radically, he argued that it is precisely the otherness of others — their irreducible difference from us — that defines who we are. We learn and grow not from those who mirror us but from those who challenge us with their distinctness. For a man who had witnessed the ultimate consequence of dehumanizing the 'other,' this was a message born of the deepest possible experience.