Holocaust Quotes - Page 6

• American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

  Spike Lee

  Honor, Slavery, Spaghetti

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2012

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• Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many wars of religion that were fought, the cruelty of Christians in burning what they believed to be witches and burning heretics, and then very recently they were responsible for the Holocaust... it was Christians.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, War, Islam

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Would Be, Forget, Killing

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

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• As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dance, War, Evil

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• One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Opposites, Issues, Important

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ghetto, People, Car

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

  Elie Wiesel

  Opera, Soap, Novel

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Dirty, Pigs, Mud

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• Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.

  Emil Ludwig

  War, Years, Want

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• The collective psychology is something very close to being sacred - we can do it but we don't do it. We should understand that the Holocaust in the European conscience is reaching a point which is very close to what is sacred for people in the Southern countries, whether they are Muslims or not. Because of that we need to try to have intellectual empathy.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, People, Empathy

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I know that DER SPIEGEL is a respected magazine. But I don't know whether it is possible for you to publish the truth about the Holocaust. Are you permitted to write everything about it?

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Writing, Magazines, Knows

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Journey, Doctors, Feelings

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• It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

  Nate Parker

  Healing, Native American, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Past, Civilization, People

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• Let's put it this way. I question whether 6 million Jews actually died in Nazi death camps. There are two major sources for Holocaust stories. One is the Nuremburg war-crimes trial, which has been shown by all honest historians to be a farce of justice. Another source is the great body of literature and media work, and at least 90% of that material is from biased Jewish sources.

  David Duke

  War, Media, Two

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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 impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Impact, Enough

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.5, Schocken

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• In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  War, Passion, Different

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Country, War, Moving

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• The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound, starved, raped, mutilated, battered, and tortured by their parents and other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippled adults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restage their early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars.

  Lloyd deMause

  Children, Growing Up, War

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• The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Risk, Sin, Forgotten

  "Modern Lover". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.

  Maureen Dowd

  Years, Religion, Gathering

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• The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Jobs, Business, Acceptance

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• I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

  Ellen Goodman

  Past, Impossible, Global Warming

  "Ellen Goodman: Global warning". Boston Globe op-ed, www.post-gazette.com. February 09, 2007.

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• If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Thinking, Rights, Talking

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