Constantin Brunner was a German Jewish philosopher born in 1862. He is praised as "one of the greatest thinkers of that age" and his books are still in print. Brunner wrote:

"We must fear calumnies and insults; hence we must make ourselves feared, so that people will be slow to trouble us. We must make people afraid of our anger, or — if this is powerless — of our hatred and revenge. We must defend ourselves against insults and slanders with all available means, by our own efforts and, if it comes to it, by claiming the public protection of the law." — Constantin Brunner

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Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook (1865-1935), was a preeminent Talmudic scholar and a Lurian Cabbalist.

"The difference between the Jewish soul, in all its independence, inner desires, longings, character and standing, and the soul of all the Gentiles, on all of their levels, is greater and deeper than the difference between the soul of a man and the soul of an animal, for the difference in the latter case is one of quantity, while the difference in the first case is one of essential quality." Rabbi Kook, quoted by Rabbi David Bar-Chayim.

Submitted by leftfield on Mon, 2007-06-04 18:45

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