Famous quotes containing the words jewish and/or immigrants:
“I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good directionthe Messiah.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
“Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of usthe Irish!”
—Mary Putnam Jacobi (18421906)
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