Quotes from Kressmann Taylor

The Nazis succeeded in taking over the church, 'but gradually,' she writes, 'they became aware that something was wrong... A force was resisting them, something they could not put their hands on -- a belief.

I am always castigating myself, but I continue to do as before.

Alas, to us Jews they are a sad story familiar through centuries of repetition, and it is almost unbelievable that the old martyrdom must be endured in a civilized nation today.

The man I have loved as a brother, whose heart has ever been brimming with sympathy and friendship, cannot possibly partake of even a passive partnership in the butchery of innocent people.

Your new attitude I cannot discuss. But you must understand me. I did not expect you would take up arms for my people because they are my people, but because you were a man who loved justice.