Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde Wurm:



What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball 

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Martin Luther King  - Quotes

 I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality 

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Rosa Luxemburg  - Quotes

 What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball 

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Carter G. Woodson  - Quotes

 At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do. 

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