James Comey Quotes

Hate crimes impact not just individuals but entire communities. When a family is attacked because of the color of their skin, it's not just the family that feels violated, but every resident of that neighborhood.

When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

The Muslim community here does feel under siege.

I think that the dehumanization of another person can happen in the matter of an instant.

All acts of terrorism - all killings of the innocent - are an abomination, and one that is made all the worse when the victims are chosen for their skin color, ethnicity, sexuality or religious beliefs.

Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

Hate crimes are still happening. No matter how evolved we think society is going, there seems to be a winding back, especially in this day and age where these old values seem to be emerging from the darkness.

Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.

Hate is taught; victimhood is taught.

We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that very easily crosses borders.

People were so cruel because of the way I existed.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

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.

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.