Anti Semitism Quotes

• Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

  Coretta Scott King

  Racism, People, Humanity

  Chicago Defender newspaper, April 01, 1998.

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• Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Believe, Soul

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• Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Philosophical, Racism, Political

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• The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

  Mike Ferguson

  Religious, Character, Democracy

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• If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Fighting, Racism

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Talking, People

  "The Socialism of Fools : The Left, the Jews and Israel" by Seymour Martin Lipset in "Encounter magazine", p. 24, December 1969.

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• Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

  William Howard Taft

  Weed, Cutting, America

  "Anti-Semitism in the United States". Address to the Anti Defamation League in Chicago, Illinois, December 23, 1920.

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• As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mean, Opposites, Play

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• We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hater, Religious, America

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• I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

  Joseph Epstein

  Thinking, Envy

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

  Paul Sarbanes

  People, Risk, Well Being

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• Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

  Voltaire

  Race, Law, Conquer

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• The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

  Jack Bruce

  Paradox, Jew

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• Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

  Eliot Engel

  Holocaust, World, Genocide

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• There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

  Steven T. Katz

  Ugly Things, People, Broken

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• The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Ideas, Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Fighting, Thinking, Organization

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• The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

  Ezra Pound

  Mistake, Stupid, Race

  1968 Remark to Allen Ginsberg, 7 Jun. Quoted in H Carpenter A Serious Character (1988), pt.5.

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• Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

  Pat Buchanan

  Catholic, Intellectual, Catholicism

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• There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  France

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• I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Europe, Students, Sponsors

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• As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Engagement, Behavior, Anti Semitic

  "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Law, Abiding, Rooms

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• In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Years, Law, Three

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• I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

  Harry Belafonte

  Israel, Community, Supportive

  "Belafonte's Retraction of Remarks on Jews Causes New Flap". CNSNews.com, www.cnsnews.com. July 07, 2008.

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