Henrietta Szold

“Make my eyes look to the future.”

“Pray as if everything depended on God. Work as if everything depended on you.”

“There is no ending to what can be done in the way of reformation.”

“I would exchange the satisfaction of having been considered a contributor to the fields of history and literature for the contentment of being a humble servant of my people.”

“Zionism is an ideal which has in it the power to heal the ills of the Jewish people.”

“To be a Zionist it is not necessary to be a madman, but it helps.”

“Give us the child for the building of the land. We will give you the land for the building of the child.”

“Establish a Jewish State not for the purpose of huddling together and closing ourselves in, but for the purpose of giving our spiritual possessions to the world.”

“My life has been one long protest.”

“It is not enough to be a good Jew; one must be a good human being.”

“The ideal is the only real.”

“I have learned to have patience with the world.”