However difficult, weary, or frightening, there is only one way to go: forward. But singing. - Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

I've been to Palestine. It exists, right next to Israel. The problem is not that Palestine threatens or erases Israel. The problem is that there are Israeli soldiers all over Palestine. (p 172)

The attitude that claims we-of any group- are essentially victims and so can't be charged with our behavior is destructive to all of us.

let me say something which in this (christian) culture may come as a surprise: what is best in people is not self-abnegation. What is best in people is a sturdy connection between respect for the self and respect for the other: reaching in and out at the same time