"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."

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"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

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"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."

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"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."

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"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."

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"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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"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."

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