Quotes from R.D. Rosen

Prejudice is nothing but ignorance, jealousy, pettiness"—she

Having God is having someone to rage against," she said over coffee. "Where else will I go with that? God is strong enough to take it, like a strong parent. My railing is not only against God, but also against man. Where was God? Where was man?

When women are educated, the world is a better place.

Let me tell you," the nun went on, "everyone is equal under God! Prejudice is nothing but ignorance, jealousy, pettiness"—she shook the hose with each word, sending undulating arcs of water into the flower beds—"and intolerance is responsible for all the violence! It's drilled into children from the beginning.

But how did you convince people to come out of hiding when hiding was all they had known?

Judgment on Playhouse 90

All right. When I was hiding in a small town in Poland with my mother, of course I didn't have many toys. In fact, I had only two—a doll and a little bear I later named Refugee. He was one of those Steiff bears, but he stayed with me after the war and into adulthood and now he's in the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The copy they made of him to sell in the gift shop is one of their most popular items.

Death was like the thirteenth person in the household, crowding out all other thoughts, making it hard to breathe.

One of the most important truths about the war, as indeed about all human affairs, is that people can interpret what happens to them only in the context of their own experiences. . . . The fact that the plight of other people was worse than one's own did little to promote personal stoicism.