It Is True We Have Won All

Not Being Beautiful Was The True Blessing. Not Being Beautiful Forced Me To Develop My Inner Resources. The Pretty Girl Has A Handicap To Overcome.

Those Who Don't Know How To Weep With Their Whole Heart, Don't Know How To Laugh Either.

It Is A Dreadful Thing To See The Dead City. Next To The Port I Found Children, Women, The Old, Waiting For A Way To Leave. I Entered The Houses, There Were Houses Where The Coffee And Pita Bread Were Left On The Table, And I Could Not Avoid [thinking] That This, Indeed, Had Been The Picture In Many Jewish Towns [i.e., In Europe, During World War Ii].

But The Individual Was Not A Tool For Something. He Was The Maker Of Tools. He Was The One Who Must Build. Even For The Best Purpose It Is Criminal To Turn An Individual Into Simply A Means For Some Ultimate End. A Society In Which The Dignity Of The Individual Is Destroyed Cannot Hope To Be A Decent Society.

It Is Not Only A Matter, I Believe, Of Religious Observance And Practice. To Me, Being Jewish Means And Has Always Meant Being Proud To Be Part Of A People That Has Maintained Its Distinct Identity For More Than 2,000 Years, With All The Pain And Torment That Has Been Inflicted Upon It.