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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

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Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo. Red cataracts of France to-day Awake, three thousand miles away, An echo of Niagara The cataract of Niagara.

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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

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Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

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The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

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Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

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I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

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I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

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My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

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Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

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We who are prosperous and independent have not sufficient homogeneity to champion on the ground of a common creed, common stock, a common history, a common heritage of misfortune, the rights of the lowest and poorest Jew-peddler who flees, for life and liberty of thought, from Slavonic mobs.

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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

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To refer to the Sun article. It seems to me so coarse and vulgar that it deserves no reply from any self-respecting Jew.

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Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

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In Heine the Jew there is a depth of human sympathy, a mystic warmth and glow of imagination... an indomitable resistance to every species of bondage.

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Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age:...

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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,...

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To err is human; to forgive, divine. Forgiveness

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