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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Past, Long, Remains

  "The Holocaust Industry". Book by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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• Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try to explain what I mean as succinctly as possible, by paraphrasing Roland Barthes: anything that makes Fascism unreal is wrong. For me, "Inglourious Basterds" makes the Holocaust harder, not easier to grasp -- as a historical reality, I mean, not as a movie convention. Insofar as it becomes a movie convention, it loses its historical reality.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.

  Mary Jo Leddy

  Exercise, Law, Evil

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• The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

  Norman Finkelstein

  War, Israel, Victory

  "The business of death" by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2000.

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• 'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!

  Adela Popescu

  Spiritual, Pain, Home

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• The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

  Charles Kennedy

  Eye, Unique, Atrocities

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• Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

  Golda Meir

  Israel, Guarantees, Strongest

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• David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).

  David Cannadine

  Double Standard, Documentaries, Responsible

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.224, Yale University Press

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• Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Black, Abuse

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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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• Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.

  Joan Rivers

  Father, Thinking

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• Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

  Elinor Glyn

  Running, Ambition, Animal

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• [During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  War, Thinking, America

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• Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

  Jamie Foxx

  Years, Two, Three

  "Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington & Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover of Vibe". www.jamie-foxx.us. November 28, 2012.

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