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• Ed Koch will never "rest in peace." That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say "it's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax."

  Alan Dershowitz

  Rest In Peace, Sigh Of Relief, Goal

  "Ed Koch: The Death of a Liberal Israel Lover" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2013.

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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.

  Abba Eban

  Minorities, Embodiment, Might

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• The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

  George Eliot

  God, Memories, Son

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.468, 谷月社

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• Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

  Larry Flynt

  Slave, Moses

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• Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Prayer, Philosophy, Book

  "New American Haggadah". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

  Pope Francis

  Catholic, Progress, Collaboration

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• I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

  Al Franken

  New York, Minnesota, Grew Up

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• Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

  Sigmund Freud

  Waiting, Analysis, Psycho

  Sigmund Freud, Oskar Pfister (1963). “Psycho-analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister”

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• Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Character, Eye, Details

  Gilbert Gottfried (2011). “Rubber Balls and Liquor”, p.23, Macmillan

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• A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

  Billy Graham

  Great Friend, Mines

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• Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Bridges, Ministry

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• Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

  Alcee Hastings

  Forgiveness, Christian, Buddhist

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• It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

  Heinrich Heine

  Believe, Atheism, Literature

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• The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

  Heinrich Heine

  Great Family, Chronicles

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

  Theodor Herzl

  Long, Entrepreneur, Mind Your Own Business

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• The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

  Meir Kahane

  Wish, Allies, Doe

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• Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.

  Meir Kahane

  Israel, Years, Growth

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• The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

  Meir Kahane

  Target, Torah, This Life

  Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

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• The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.

  Meir Kahane

  Country, Facts, Creation

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• I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government.

  Meir Kahane

  Government, Three, Fundamentals

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• When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Men, Rights, Influence

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• The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Holocaust, Suffering, Way

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• Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

  Ed Koch

  Believe, Way, Grass

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• Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.

  John C. McGinley

  League, African American, Disrespect

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• In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

  Jon Meacham

  Christian, Atheist, Fighting

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