"No Jews felt more helpless in the face of anti-Semitism than those who had done everything deliberately and enthusiastically to adapt themselves to their environment." ~~ Leo Motzkin
"The landlessness of the Jewish people has been the source of its malady and tragedy." ~~ Dov Ber Borochov
"Where Jewish education is neglected, the whole content of Judaism is reduced to merely an awareness of anti-Semitism. Judaism ceases them to be a civilization, and becomes a complex." ~~ Mordechai Kaplan
"I am sorry for the blindness of Jews who comfort themselves in vain in the evils that face them now, saying that anti-Semitism is ephemeral and will speedily pass away. Abandon that hope!" ~~ Max Nordau
"To hate Israel is to hate God…To rise against Israel is to rise against God…To help Israel is to help God." ~~ Sifre Num., #84
"We carry the germs of anti-Semitism in our own knapsacks." ~~ Chaim Weizmann
"We accept this word ‘Jew’, ostensibly a term of abuse, and shall turn it into a title." ~~ Theodore Herzl
"Just as anti-Semitism drives the weak, the cowardly and the materialistic Jew into Christianity, so its pressure has strengthened my own Judaism powerfully within me." ~~ Theodore Herzl
"Look, the Israelite people are much too many for us. Let us then deal shrewdly with them, lest they increase! " ~~ Exodus (Shmot) 1: 9,10
"No Hitler, no Holocaust." ~~ Milton Himmelfarb
"The last anti-Semite will die when the last Jew does." ~~ W. Adler
"What evil can a man yet speak against the Jews that our enemies have not already spoken? What good can a man say of them that our champions have not yet said?" ~~ David Frishman