Austrian - Actor | May 2, 1924 - July 21, 2015
It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
Theodore Bikel
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I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.
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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
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Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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