Mordechai Anielewicz quotes

“Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!”
-- Mordechai Anielewicz

Source : 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.”
-- Mordechai Anielewicz

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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 Anielewicz

Source : 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 Anielewicz

Source : "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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“Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.”

“Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.”

“Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!”

“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”

“The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”

“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

“We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.”

“The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.”

“I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.”

“Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?”