Quotes About Identity

From Marx until today, victim groups have played an indispensable role in Leftist success. Without victim groups, the Left cannot succeed.

Identity without democracy is totalitarian; democracy without identity is weak and self-betraying.

As Abba Eban, Israel's Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1974, expressed it: "Israel is the only nation whose citizens live on the same land, speak the same language and practice the same religion as their ancestors did 3,000 years ago.

Also, the Israelites must have admired this man who chose to be one of them, when he could have led an utterly charmed life as an Egyptian prince.

Unlike other countries, the United States is more an idea than a place, ethnicity, or race. Unfortunately, most American young people today cannot answer, What is America for? What is it about? Why was it founded? Why is it different? They can't answer these questions because they haven't been taught an answer.

I am part animal and part God.

They must also acknowledge that the only sovereign states to have ever existed on that land have been Jewish: the first Jewish state, 1010 (the reign of King David) to 586 BCE; the second Jewish state, 530 BCE to 70 CE (AD); and the third Jewish state, 1948 to the present. No other sovereign state ever existed in the land of Israel.

Remembering—the good others have done, the evil others have done, and one's moral obligations—is an indispensable aspect of a good and meaningful life. Who are we, if not our memories? I

Judaism has consisted of four components: God,Torah, Israel, and Chosenness; that is, the God introduced by the Jews, Jewish laws, Jewish peoplehood, and the belief that the Jews are God's chosen people. Jews' allegiance to any of these components has been a major source of antisemitism because it not only rendered the Jew an outsider, but more important, it has often been regarded by non-Jews as challenging

When the choice before us was the whole of Eretz Israel but no Jewish state or no Jewish state but not the whole of Eretz Israel, we chose a Jewish state.

One was a full-blooded Negro, the other mixed, with pale skin, thick lips and crinkly hair.

What am I more than elaborate sentience?

I believe that most of us have false beliefs about our own nature, and our identity over time, and that, when we see the truth, we ought to change some of our beliefs about what we have reason to do.

No fui yo quien hizo esto, sino un yo anterior»

You want to hear my history? Ask the sea.

and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation

I am the man my father loved and was.

Even a brief glimpse of what we were is valuable to help understand what we are

When I feel ashamed, it means I feel there isn't just something wrong with what I've done, there is something wrong with who I am. Shame is often a hidden emotion and it can be paralyzing in its power.

My first point seems overwhelmingly simple: that the accidents of birth and geography determine to a very large extent to what faith we belong.

One of the most blasphemous consequences of injustice, especially racist injustice, is that it can make a child of God doubt that he or she is a child of God.

The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

Any woman who doesn't have a little bit of whore in her is pretty much a dried up stick.