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No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you—he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

— Israel Zangwill

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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

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Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled.

Children of the Ghetto (1892)

It is only little men and creatures low in the scale of organization who never change.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

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