Hebrew Israelites

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or israelites:

    Where there is no vision, the people perish.
    —Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 29:18.

    President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas; recorded in Theodore C. Sorenson’s biography, Kennedy, Epilogue (1965)

    The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God.
    Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 2:23.