--- title: "2 Deborah E. Lipstadt Quotes - Famous Historian of Modern Age" description: "American diplomat and Holocaust historian (born 1947)... | Deborah Esther Lipstadt is an American historian and diplomat. She is the author of Denying t..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d1/deborah-e-lipstadt-98622_war_and-therein-is-a-lesson-that-can-be-lear_2224956.jpg" --- # Deborah E. Lipstadt (1947) Historian Of Modern Age **2** quotes in **4** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Deborah E. Lipstadt is a historian of Modern Age. ## Quick Facts About Deborah E. Lipstadt Born March 18, 1947 Profession Historian Of Modern Age ## About Deborah E. Lipstadt American diplomat and Holocaust historian (born 1947)... \| Deborah Esther Lipstadt is an American historian and diplomat. She is the author of Denying the Holocaust (1993), History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005), The Eichmann Trial (2011), and Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019). She served as the United States special envoy for moni ## Quotes by Deborah E. Lipstadt > [“And therein is a lesson that can be learned by all who fight the purveyors of hatred and lies. Though the battle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-e-lipstadt/and-therein-is-a-lesson-that-can-be-learned-by-all-who-fight-the/) [Deborah E. Lipstadt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-e-lipstadt/) [War](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d1/deborah-e-lipstadt-98622_war_and-therein-is-a-lesson-that-can-be-lear_2224956.jpg) > [“Rampton suggested that one could derive a “fair picture of a man’s true attitudes and motives from what he says and from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-e-lipstadt/rampton-suggested-that-one-could-derive-a-fair-picture-of-a-man-s/) [Deborah E. Lipstadt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-e-lipstadt/) [Fair Picture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fair-picture-1056714/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ef/deborah-e-lipstadt-98622_fair-picture_rampton-suggested-that-one-could-derive_3199506.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-e-lipstadt/#itemlist", "name": "Deborah E. Lipstadt Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And therein is a lesson that can be learned by all who fight the purveyors of hatred and lies. Though the battle against our opponents is exceptionally important, the opponents themselves are not. Their arguments make as much sense as flat-earth theory. However, in dramatic contrast to flat-earthers, they can cause tremendous pain and damage. Some of them use violence. Others, as Hajo Funke said in Berlin as we sat in the shadow of the Reichstag, use words that, in turn, encourage others to do harm. It was words that motivated those who blew up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, dragged an African-American down a logging road to his death, tortured a young homosexual in Wyoming, stabbed a Jewish student to death on the streets of Crown Heights, blew up Israeli families about to celebrate the Passover Seder, and flew planes into the World Trade Center. We must conduct an unrelenting fight against those who encourage—directly or indirectly—others to do these things. But, even as we fight, we must not imbue our opponents with a primordial significance. We certainly must never attribute our existence to their attacks on us or let our battle against them become our raison d’etre. And as we fight them, we must dress them—or force them to dress themselves—in the jester’s costume. 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