Mordechai Anielewicz quotes
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“Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!”
-- Mordechai AnielewiczSource : The last letter to Yitzhak Cukierman, April 23, 1943.
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“It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice from the ghetto... My life's dream has come true. Defense in the ghetto has become a fact. Armed Jewish resistance and revenge are actually happening. I have witnessed the glorious and heroic combat of the Jewish fighters.”
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“The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!”
-- Mordechai AnielewiczSource : Letter to Yitzhak Cukierman, April 23, 1943.
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“The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.”
-- Mordechai AnielewiczSource : "The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History". Book edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Jehuda Reinharz, p. 675, letter to Yitzhak Cukierman (April 23, 1943), 1995.
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“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
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“My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams”, p.95
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“I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.”
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