Quotes from Gerald Green

If they want to kill us so desperately, then surely we are worthwhile, valid, of importance to the world.

There aren't enough people left who get mad, plain mad. Not mad for a cause or a purpose, but just generally mad at all the bitchery and fraud. We take fraud for granted. We accept it. We like it. We want to be had. That's where he was different. He knew he was being cheated and he didn't like it one tiny bit, whether it was some old biddy doing him out of his two dollars or a corporation telling him they made better cathartics. He was the last angry man.

I don't fear anyone, Russians, Americans, any of them. I did a job. I obeyed orders. I am a soldier." Kurst shoved me away. "You know, you may just manage to cheat the hangman with that kind of logic. But I hope to God you don't.

The Vatican was decent about that sort of thing. Protecting Jews not from oppression, but from too much oppression. Condemn the Jews to degradation, to censure as deicides, well-poisoners, child-killers, yet try to prevent them from being slaughtered entirely.

I don't fear anyone, Russians, Americans, any of them. I did a job. I obeyed orders. I am a soldier." Kurt shoved me away. "You know, you may just manage to cheat the hangman with that kind of logic. But I hope to God you don't.

I still did not cry. I tried not to think of her. I had loved her too much, too intensely. In danger all the time, we had clung to one another. We had lived several lifetimes in our years together. Now she was gone." - Gerald Green, Holocaust

No one will believe a crime that big. People will say, "Impossible, they could not kill that many, torture that many, be so cruel." People will say that there are limits, that human beings stop at some point. But they didn't stop.

I have never been a very brave man," Uncle Moses said. "Nor I," Zalmann added. Eva smiled at them. "You are brave enough.

They have fooled the world. Or else the world doesn't give a damn. What confounds me is that no one seems to ask what right they have to put us in prisons at all. The assumption seems to be that it's all right for Jews to be jailed and treated like dogs, provided they aren't murdered.

The sight of that stupid boy's terrorized eyes, the knowledge that he was finished, would never see a sunrise, or a girl's face, or swim in a clear lake again—all these rattled me, made me wonder if I were the bloodthirsty avenger I'd imagined myself to be.

I knew something about myself. Killing was indecent, depraved. I would not get used to it. One killed to survive, to keep one's loved ones alive. No good attached to ending the lives of others. That Ukrainian kid had parents, a family, hopes. Like the millions of us now dying for no reason.

When you see the neighborhood that you grew up in being underwater, either you can sit down and look like everybody else, or you can get up and go try to help somebody that needs to be helped.

Some nights you're going to have a lot of energy, some nights you're not. The great ones find energy from nothing.

I want to be that guy who stops players.

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

All I've been doing is shooting in my driveway and playing one-on-one with my Rottweiler.

No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.

Once I went overseas and had this real motivation to get back, I was willing to do whatever it took to stick in this league, and that's what I did.

I'm always animated; I'm always kind of crunk.

They'll touch you and look at your skin to see if it's paint. I'm not playing. All Russia is not like that. You've got your big cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg. Some cities understand that there are black people. They do exist. But the smaller cities, the little villages, they've never seen it.

When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn't understand the business.

Don't get me wrong - any team in the league, I'm blessed to be on. But to be the team that you dreamed about as a little kid, it's just that much more special.

At times I was like, 'I'm too tired. I don't want to work out today.' I've been thinking about those moments. Looking back at the mistakes I did make, I wish I could do better.