The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
I. L. PeretzPrayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.
I. L. PeretzIn the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
I. L. PeretzDon't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?
I. L. Peretz