Silvia Tennenbaum quotes

“A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.”
-- Silvia Tennenbaum

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“there comes a time in every rabbi's life when he thinks he's Moses.”
-- Silvia Tennenbaum

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“grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.”
-- Silvia Tennenbaum

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“the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.”
-- Silvia Tennenbaum

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“Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.”
-- Silvia Tennenbaum

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“If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

“Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.”

Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly

“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, Da Capo Press

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

“MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.”

“All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members!”

“I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.”

“It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.”

Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.8, Hachette UK

“I'm a proud member of the rabble.”