David Hewson Quotes

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

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.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

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

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders a most unrighteous, unbecoming, and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be--while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights?

There is again a rising fever and anger towards those seen as different.

Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

I always felt the 'X-Men,' in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.

For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.

Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.

We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.

It's a life issue more than anything when you're dealing with racism anywhere... It's a life issue - bigger than sports, bigger than football.

We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every minor slight is analysed to determine whether or not it is racist, sexist, homophobic and so on.

People were so cruel because of the way I existed.

The thing with mutants is, they've always stood in for the disenfranchised and downtrodden. And no matter how hard they fight, how hard they work to live among humans, the humans always push back with new laws and new ways of hurting mutants.

Shame on accursed Csarism which tortured and persecuted the Jews. Shame on those who foment hatred towards the Jews, who foment hatred towards other nations.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Anti-Semitism is strong here and political reaction is violent.

That people in Germany are threatened and abused because of their Jewish appearance or their support for Israel is an outrageous scandal that we won’t accept.