#hebrews

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. ↗

— John Adams

#atheist #believe #believed #blind #civilize

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#credible #deny #either #hebrews #hero

Oh mia patria sì bella e perduta! O membranza sì cara e fatal! [Oh, my country, so beautiful, so lost. Oh, memory, So dear, so doomed.] The Va’ Pensiero chorus of the Jews in exile from Giuseppe Verdi’s “Nabucco” Lyrics by Solera. ↗

— Solera Verdi

#nabucco #va-pensiero #beauty

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#because #being #concern #czar #earnestness

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#being #bring #could #hebrews #his

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#ago #been #being #civilization #difficulties

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#believe #building #captured #commandment #could

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#between #bring #compassion #correct #cuba

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#his #honorary #made #president #secretary