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"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."
"No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation."
"For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles."
"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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