Who's quote is this, If not I, who, If not now, when?

Answer 1

If Not Now, When? is the English title of the Italian novelist Primo Levi's 1982 novel, Se non ora, quando?.

It recounts the fortunes of a group of Jewish Soviet partisans in Nazi-occupied Russia and Poland during World War II. The group struggle to survive and continue their fight against the Germans. The partisan band reaches Poland and then German territory before the surviving members are officially received in territory held by the Western allies as Displaced Persons. Finally, they succeed in reaching Italy, on their way to Palestine, to take part in the construction of the Jewish national home there.

It is one of the key war novels of the post-war era, and an important contribution to the literature of the Holocaust. Levi himself fought as an anti-fascist partisan in Italy before being captured and, as a Jew, being sent to the Auschwitz extermination facility where he survived 11 months prior to liberation by the Red Army.

The novel won both the Premio Campiello and the Premio Viareggio.

Answer 2

George Romney, the governor of Michigan in 1963, asked,
"If not now, when? If not us, who?" This may be the quote about which you are thinking.

Also, it may be Hillel, as keylime mentioned. He stated,
“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?”

Answer 3

Hillel the Elder