Jew Quotes - Page 35

• Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

  Leon Askin

  Father, Party, Used

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

  Norman Lamm

  Religious, Government, Israel

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• The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.

  William O. Douglas

  Black, Firsts, Purpose

  "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.

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• If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Ifs

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• And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Land, People

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• The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.

  Diana Trilling

  Boston, East, Lace

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

  Walter E. Williams

  People, World, Slavery

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• When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Talking, People

  "The Socialism of Fools : The Left, the Jews and Israel" by Seymour Martin Lipset in "Encounter magazine", p. 24, December 1969.

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• Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile...

  Lauryn Hill

  Gentiles

  "Song: Zealots (The Score)". February 13, 1996.

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• I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . . Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies, and I do not want to be spared the troubles which Israeli musicians encounter when they represent the Jewish state beyond its borders.

  Evgeny Kissin

  Israel, Enemy, Musician

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• I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling. You have to put on a suit every weekend to go meet with a bunch of Jews.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Weekend, Feelings, Mitzvah

  "Jesse Eisenberg Feels Like He's Doesn't Really Belong at the Oscars" by Tim Nudd, people.com. February 9, 2011.

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• CNN’s Rick Sanchez said the Jews run CNN. Ah, so that’s who we blame for Rick Sanchez.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Cnn, Blame

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2010

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• Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Play, Parrots, Wells

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• What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Race, Black, Belief

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• Ive always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

  Piper Laurie

  Knowing, People, Felt

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• I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of
  getting pushed around, period.

  Ben Stein

  Christian, Believe, Tired

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

  Barbara Amiel

  Movement, Communist, Century

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• We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Religion, Nations

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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• Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Names, Jerusalem

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• It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Should Have, Promise, Generations

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• To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races--the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.

  M. S. Golwalkar

  Country, Race, Roots

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• Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

  Jackie Mason

  Basketball, School, Play

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• Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described as neither), it would become the responsibility of all of us to change the conditions of reception so that the public might begin to distinguish between criticism of Israel and a hatred of Jews.

  Judith Butler

  Change, Responsibility, Israel

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• Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Summer, Spring, Deportation

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