“The Jews as a group may be powerless, but the sum of the achievements of their individual members is everywhere considerable and telling, even though those achievements were made in the face of obstacles.”

—  Albert Einstein

affirmed on page 213 of The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
1930s, Why Do They Hate the Jews (1938)

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