Albert Camus Quotes

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

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.

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

Americans don’t do a good job, and shouldn’t do a good job, at separating the message from the messenger, when the messenger is killing people.

It is a sin peculiar to man to hate his victim.

It is always unfortunate when the innocent become victims of the anger and hatred of leaders, especially in the name of religion.

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

When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

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.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

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

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.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

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

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'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

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.

Every evil and hardship that exists and has existed on the land of Palestine was caused by the Jews, they initiate evil because they have sick-hearts and evil intentions and souls…. The arrogance of the Jews has transgressed all limits; they have become obsessed with murdering and shedding the pure blood of innocent people; they have no conscience, no values and no sense of humanity in them. They are committing massacres in cities and refugee camps very frequently; they are deliberately mutilating bodies thinking that this will end the determination and will of the Muslim nation and to struggle on.

I am not saying that killing innocent people is nice.… But at the same time, we must start with the innocent among the Muslims. There are millions of innocent people among us, while the innocent among you – and innocent they are – number only dozens, hundreds, or thousands, at the most...