Extremism Quotes - Page 2

• Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Religious, Children

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• The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Creativity, Creative

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

  Barack Obama

  Mind Blowing, Important, Islam

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Exercise, Men

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

  Joichi Ito

  Fighting, Ideas, Trying

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• To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either.

  Angela Merkel

  Xenophobia, Fighting, Racism

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• Where we get into problems, typically, is when our personal religious faith, or the community of faith that we participate in, tips into a sort of fundamentalist extremism, in which it's not enough for us to believe what we believe, but we start feeling obligated to, you know, hit you over the head because you don't believe the same thing. Or to treat you as somebody who's less than I am.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Believe, Community

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we understand the roots are very deep. I say it's like revolutionary Communism, something that is going to have to be knocked out over a very long period of time. This strain of extremism continues to be very strong, whether it's in Afghanistan, or Somalia or Yemen, or any of these places.

  Tony Blair

  Strong, Thinking, Roots

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Nice, Believe

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

  Vicente del Bosque

  World, Noise, Doe

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• In my view, and in the view of a lot of intelligence experts, the terrorist threat that we face now has morphed significantly from the days of 9/11 to homegrown violent extremism. We have to be concerned and focused on homegrown violent extremism, countering violent extremism that exists within our borders.

  Jeh Johnson

  Violent, Terrorist, Threat

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Luxury, Roots

  "Napolitano defends report on right-wing extremist groups". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2009.

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• The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Real, Believe

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.345, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

  Charles Ferguson

  Religious, Political, Politics

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• By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism

  John Avlon

  Country, Crazy, America

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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• The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, United States, Spectrum

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Passion, Mean

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• I do believe that if you reach a just and fair settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians it will have a massive influence on countering extremism. Which is not to say that the Israel-Palestinian situation is the source of the problem, but it is very potent fuel.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Israel, Fuel

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Failure, Rights

  "Bill Maher Isn’t the Only One Who Misunderstands Religion" by Reza Aslan, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Ku Klux Klan, League

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• I believe in copyright, but I don't believe in copyright extremism.

  Kim Dotcom

  Believe, Copyright, I Believe

  "Kim Dotcom just made some wild remarks about copyright, Snowden, Sony, and Hillary 2016". Interview with Emily Chang, www.businessinsider.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

  Edward Snowden

  Levels, Radicalism, Danger

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• The practical reality that in order for us to identify homegrown violent extremism and prevent it or root it out before it takes action, we are going to need the cooperation of Muslim communities in this country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Reality, Order

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Atheist, Civilization

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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