"One historian summarized the Jewish experience in America. "This is the first land where the Jews didn't automatically have to fear the police." His meaning was that, for too long, authority and the individuals who wield power were capricious, arbitrary, rapine. Holocaust chronicler, Dr. Raul Hilberg, put it another way when he writes in capturing the logic and horror of some 1700 years of experience with the "civilized" western world. "The Church said you may not live among us a s Jews. " The result was conversion, exclusion, or ghettoization. Then Hilberg continues: "After the Church, the State said you may not live among us." The consequence: More ghettos, often violence, sometimes expulsion. "The Nazis then said you may not live." -Michael Zedek
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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