21st century Quote by Ezekiel Emanuel

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

— Marek Edelman

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

— Mel Brooks

But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

— Edna Ferber

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

— Lionel Trilling

As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the…

— Barack Obama

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

— Elliott Abrams

Jewish Americans have a long and proud history in Georgia and in the United States. Their story is inherently American - it is one…

— Lucy McBath

For American philo-Semites, the Jewish experience wasn't just one minority experience among many, but a signal and elevated case.

— Ross Douthat

It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the…

— William Howard Taft

Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning…

— Berl Katznelson

The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United…

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

— Peter Eisenman