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From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
Golda Meir
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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know I've never been a man minister.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of the night. When President Nasser leavesinstructions that he is to be awakened in the middleof the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there willbe peace.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
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