Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

a hero who carried the torch of justice at a time when there was a paralysis of conscience over responsibility for the Holocaust.

In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.