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Theodor herzl on zionism

Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honour of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow. And if it should occur that men of other creeds and different nationalities come to live amongst us, we should accord them honorable protection and equality before the law. We have learnt toleration in Europe. This is not sarcastically said; for the Anti-Semitism of today could only in a very few places be taken for old religious intolerance.

It is for the most part a movement among civilized nations by which they try to chase away the spectres of their own past. Kingscourt, that people would be better if they were better off? If I believed that, I should not be going off to my lonely island; I should have stayed in the midst of humanity.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. national colonization will succeed.

I should have told them how to better themselves. They needn't wait to begin. Not a thousand years, not a hundred, not even fifty.