Political Quotes

“Madam President, in the Jewish faith, there is a concept known as Tikkun olam. It refers to our responsibility to heal the world through good deeds and devotion to others. I want to tell you about a man who devoted all 92 years of his life to healing our world. His name was Lowell Sachnoff. He was a man who found joy in life, the law, and the cause of equal justice for all. And he brought that joy to all of us who were lucky to count him as a friend. Lowell passed away last month, peacefully, in his home in Evanston, IL. And saddened as I am by his loss, I am--above all--grateful that I got to know him. Lowell was a model of kindness, curiosity, and integrity. And in the words of his wife Fay, he was ``absolutely fearless when it came to representing the downtrodden, ignored, and abused.'' Our world is a better place because of his lifetime of service. Lowell's commitment to serving others began where he was born and raised: on Maxwell Street in Chicago. He grew up in a community of hard-working, Jewish immigrants during the Depression. And even from a young age, Lowell had a hunger for healing our broken world. It is only fitting--Lowell was raised by a family whose own world had been shattered by hate and persecution. His parents and grandparents were forced to flee their ancestral homeland of Ukraine because of pogroms targeting Jews.…”