Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.