[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.
Israel ZangwillYou cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
Israel ZangwillYou, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries.
Israel Zangwill