Best Anti-Semitism Quotes
62 Anti-Semitism quotes by 51 unique authors
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When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared…
— Henry Louis Gates
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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…
— Abba Eban
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Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.
— Eliot Engel
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I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
— Oriana Fallaci
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I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
— Oriana Fallaci
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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…
— Coretta Scott King
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I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in…
— Viggo Mortensen
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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…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
— Ezra Pound
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
— Tariq Ramadan
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People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I…
— Jonathan Sacks
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In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism,…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was…
— William Shatner
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people…
— Barbara Smith
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There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism,…
— George Soros
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As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud…
— Steven Spielberg
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
— William Howard Taft
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
— A. N. Wilson
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If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is…
— Paul Johnson
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What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than…
— Paul Johnson
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In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.
— Paul Johnson
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Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is…
— Paul Johnson
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I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.
— Tim Blake Nelson
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