Beta Israel Community

Famous quotes containing the words israel and/or community:

    “appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 8:5.

    Leaders of ancient Israel asking the last of the judges, Samuel, to appoint a king.

    “I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)