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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

  David Irving

  Expression, Holocaust, Denial

  Source: thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com

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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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• 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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• Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

  Theodor Adorno

  Jew, Rumours

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.110, Verso

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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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• Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Fighting, Evil

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

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• Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.

  Kofi Annan

  Europe, People, Holocaust

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.120, Routledge

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• But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

  Tobias Wolff

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

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• Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  Barbara Smith

  Color, White, People

  "Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism".

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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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• Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

  Mary McCarthy

  Race, Racism, Evil

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Long, Retrospect, Businessman

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• I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.

  Marge Piercy

  Girl, Fighting, Class

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

  Abba Eban

  Israel, Tasks, World

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