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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine

Power, Human, Christian

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Barack Obama

Great, Christian, Nation

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
Will Smith

Church, Crush, Muslim

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Good, Men

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
Billy Graham

Year, Days, High

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
Henny Youngman

Help, Woman, Made

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Time, Next, Found

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Elie Wiesel

Best, Remember, Desire

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.
Ron Kind

Power, Gay, Long

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Simple, Lives, State

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.
Noam Chomsky

Leader, Youth, Less

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.
Steven Spielberg

Important, Proud, Growing

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
Toni Morrison

Black, Country, Become

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
Michael J. Fox

Morning, Sunday, Woman

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.
Jon Stewart

Great, Born, City

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny Youngman

Men, Die, Before

Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.
Shimon Peres

True, Friend, Place

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.
Henny Youngman

Why, Worth, Cost

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.
Michael J. Fox

Wife, Children, Birthright

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.
Denis Leary

Funny, Money, Important

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
Elie Wiesel

Home, Book, Table

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.
Daniel Radcliffe

Proud, Religious, Though

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.
Philip Zimbardo

Black, Night, Poor

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, Cannot, Dead

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
Jonathan Sacks

Power, Freedom, Lost

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace, Two, State

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.
Shia LaBeouf

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
Daniel Radcliffe

Mom, Dad, Person

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