Golda Meir said:"If we have to have a choice between being dead...

Golda Meir said:

"If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image."

and:

"The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied."

and:

"Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves."