Alan Borovoy Quotes
I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
-
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.
-
The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
-
Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
-
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
-
There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
-
In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
-
No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.
-
I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
-
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
-
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
-
Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
-
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
-
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.
-
I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.
-
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.
-
For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.
-
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.
-
I'm very happy when I can find somewhere with some very good matzo ball soup, tasting exactly the same as the one my mother used to do for me.
-
No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.
-
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
-
I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.
