I have two fervent wishes: that future historians will not have to write about the present as another period that witnessed the dismantling of democracy and rights in Europe and, indeed, the United States and that future historians will not have to identify this as the fateful moment in which the Jews’ own state began to implode by renouncing the practices of democracy and the principle of equality. (357)

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大卫·索尔金，《犹太人的解放：跨越五个世纪的历史》

我有两个热切的愿望：未来的历史学家不必将现在写成另一个见证欧洲乃至美国民主和权利被瓦解的时期，未来的历史学家不必将其视为决定命运的时期。犹太人自己的国家因放弃民主实践和平等原则而开始崩溃的时刻。(357)