Sunil Gangopadhyay Quotes

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.

When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.

I get a lot of attacks from conservative women as well. Equal hate from all sides for me!

Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.

I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

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

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

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

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.

I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

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.

I'm not good with bullies and zealots.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

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.

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

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.