“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.”
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A source trail connects this quotation to Albert Einstein and affirmed on page 213 of The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, but the exact English wording has not been confirmed in a primary text. The attribution is therefore probable rather than definitive.
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