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"There will be hope for the well-being of the entire world only if the humans, men and women alike, stop deeming the women as some kind of inferior creatures. We, the responsible citizens of the world can build a better future for the entire species, only by improving the condition of the women."

"Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured."

"Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded."

"Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich."

"Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race."

"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that."

"There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars."
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"For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles."


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


"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."


"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."


"What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine."


"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out."


"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
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