Amos Oz Quotes
I am not a pacifist in terms of turning the other cheek.
Oz, Amos. How to Cure a Fanatic. Princeton University Press, 2006.
Many radicals of the day argued that violence was a legitimate form of protest and self defense. Goldman urged then not to advocate violence because under the then existing law and practical considerations, that gave the law enforcement authorities the tools to persecute the dissidents.
This appears to be the first American utterance of a longstanding doctrine of foreign policy.
Beecher’s church raised funds and bought new Sharpe’s Rifles for the anti-slave residents of the West.
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
