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> then who will? A good slogan I’ve heard repeated in more activist circles: “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
by Swizec 3y ago
> then who will?
A good slogan I’ve heard repeated in more activist circles: “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
- schoen 3y agoThat might be adapted from Rabbi Hillel in Pirke Avot 1:14. :הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי, מִי לִי. וּכְשֶׁאֲנִי לְעַצְמִי, מָה אֲנִי. וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁיו, אֵימָתָי He [also] used to say: If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for my own self [only], what am I? And if not now, when? https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.1.14?lang=bi&lookup=%3A&with=Lexicon&lang2=en https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.1.14?lang=bi&lookup=%3A&...