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Warsaw's Jews first thought that the Nazis' coming meant" no more than a switch of anti-Semitic rulers. The book describes their slow wakening to the realities of race murder as the Germans first wall them in, then wipe them out, block by block. At its opening the trapped Jews are living normal city lives; at its close they can take a crying baby from its mother's breast and kill it, for fear of the Germans who are searching for hidden survivors. The book ends, symbolically, with a group of ghetto men, liberated from their...
...When St. Paul preached 'There is no more Jew or Gentile; you are all one in Christ Jesus, who is all and in all,' did they sneer at Him: 'How would you like to have your sister marry a Gentile?' If they did, do you suppose that He compromised Christianity for the sake of popularity or money...
...Jewish people. We must ask . . . are we, because we lived in Germany, also guilty of this diabolic injustice? . . . The phrase 'collective guilt' is an oversimplification. It is a distortion, in fact the kind of distortion that the Nazis tried to pound into us in regard to the Jews; for the Nazis taught that the fact of being a Jew was sufficient to prove guilt...
...have to stop asking, is a man an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, or a Jew? We have to get back to a free evaluation of the individual. If I look around at my four or five best friends, I find that two or three of them are Jews . . . I am their friend because between us there exists the human relationship of love. We need the courage to love. Hate stems from a sluggishness of the heart; it is cheap and easy. Love is always a risk, but only a risk brings victory...
...tall, gaunt-faced Anglican minister who has labored a good part of his 43 years among South Africa's underdog black men. "My religion," he says, "knows no color bar." He likes to quote Paul's Epistle to the Colossians: "There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ...