Golda Meir - Jews Quotes

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We owe a responsibility not only to those who are in Israel but also to those generations that are no more, to those millions who have died within our lifetime, to Jews all over the world, and to generations of Jews to come. We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Golda Meir

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

Golda Meir

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

Golda Meir

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Golda Meir

How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?... the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.

Golda Meir

Only here could Jews live as of right, rather than sufferance, and only here Jews could be masters, not victims, of their fate.

Golda Meir