Emma Thompson Quotes

Xenophobia is not what this country stands for but it is what it is built on.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.

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

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.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

We do not want people like him in Switzerland.

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

''People of ill will'' should not use the terrorist attack to foment anti-immigrant sentiment. ''What happened on Sept. 11 is not about immigrants; it's about evil

We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

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

The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism - and my family have been victims of it.

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

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.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

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.

It's not hard to look at our own world and draw parallels between 9/11, for example, and how Muslims are viewed or treated by North American culture since then. Just to see the way fear can breed hatred and intolerance for people who aren't the same as us - and that's certainly part of what's at the heart of 'Descender.'

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.

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

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.