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Anyone who has heard-as I have-Jew-hating remarks said to her face because to the speaker she didn't look Jewish knows both the survival value and the knife twist of passing.

— Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

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A movement, even a radical movement, is also an institution with its own set of leaders, power dynamics and hierarchy.

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The young inspire the middle-aged and old with courage, and they project our vision where it belongs, into the future.

Learning a language stretches a long way to help create trust, to strengthen our ability to communicate and to understand another people. It also signals willingness to give up centrality.

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We must want equality, and we must grasp that equality does not coexist with class structure.

It is from this solid, self-knowing place that we can work towards peace and justice

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