Martin Luther Quotes
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
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In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
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No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.
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It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
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Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
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The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
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We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.
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People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.
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I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.
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Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the existence of people because of their ethnic makeup or because of their race or religion, and that was the case with Hitler trying to exterminate the Jews, and that was the case in Rwanda, when the Tutsis were attacked and over 500,000 were killed in two or three days.
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The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.
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A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.
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The poems I did write there in Harvard include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary.
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What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
