Maajid Nawaz Quotes

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

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

You get a lot of stick in this job, and I don't mean political opposition that is part of your job but real abuse. And unfortunately, if you are from an ethnic minority, that may include racial or religious abuse.

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.

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

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

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

A Mexican is not as good as a dog and isn’t even worth a bullet to kill him.

Racism must be fought - there are no two ways about it.

'Those people' is a bad word.

To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.

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

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.

Trump's campaign is not a collection of ignorant statements. It is a candidacy of hate and fear that poses serious risks to people of color, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, and LGBTQ people.

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.

There is a national climate here. We're seeing a rise in hate speech, in intolerance, in racism, in division.

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.

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.

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

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.