Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
GOLDA MEIRWomen’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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