Anti Semitism Quotes - Page 3

• Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Lynching, Law

  "Oates Details Writers' Last Days in 'Wild Nights'". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. April 27, 2008.

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• We have suicide bombers blowing up buses in Israel and very real anti-Semitism on the march in Europe, but the TV networks located the worldwide danger zone for Jews as the space between Mel Gibson's ears.

  L. Brent Bozell III

  Suicide, Real, Israel

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• There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.

  Abraham Foxman

  Hatred, Rejected, Halfway

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• There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade. (13th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Views, Flames, Long

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• Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.

  August Bebel

  Fool, Socialism

  "Der Antisemitismus". Book by Hermann Bahr, p. 21, 1894.

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• The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Struggle

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Hatred, Capitalism

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• I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, New York, Crazy

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Anti-Semitism is a disease-you catch it from Jews

  Edgar Steele

  Disease, Jew

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• We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

  Ronald Reagan

  Party, People, House

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

  Steve Allen

  Evil, Religion, Social

  Steve Allen (1990). “Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality”, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books

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• Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

  Bill Nighy

  Long, Mysterious, Fascism

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I hate the charge, I find it repulsive.I hate even the question [about anti-Semitism ] because people that know me and you heard the prime minister, you heard Ben Netanyahu. He said, I've known Donald Trump for a long time and then he said, forget it.

  Donald Trump

  Hate, Long, People

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• [Jew] didn't believe anything good could come out of a Jewish study. So, what has happened is anti-Semitism has cost the Jews their lives and their property. It's also cost the Christians the ability to read the old gospels, which are deeply, deeply Jewish, and to bring that out is a pretty exciting thing. I'm having a wonderful time with that. I'm just not near ready to do much with it.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Believe, Cost

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Islam, Today

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, World, Today

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• Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism.

  Ruth Smeeth

  Racism, Way, Steps

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• The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Math, June, July

  Source: www.slate.com

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• You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people. Therefore join the movement as individuals against anti-Semitism, join the movements for the rights of Hispanics, the rights of women, the rights of gays. In other words, I think that each movement has to stand on its own feet because it has a particular agenda, but it can ask other people.

  Bayard Rustin

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  Source: kalamu.com

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• With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.

  Michael Douglas

  Son, People, Political

  "Michael Douglas Pens Op-Ed on Anti-Semitism: 'We Can Stop the Spread of This Madness" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Wall, Mean

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Extremes, Native

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.

  Elie Wiesel

  Running, Teacher, Strong

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies which animate them are in essence revolutionaries, but they do not realize it and believe that they are working for 'progress.'...but that which they call justice is the triumph of Jewish principles in the world of which the two extremes are plutocracy and socialism. Present day Anti-Semitism is a revolt against the world of today, the product of Judaism.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Believe, Essence, Two

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• it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.

  Mary McCarthy

  Stupid, Lunch, People

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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