Mark Shields Quotes

There is a tendency to attack some particular group of people and scapegoat them, but this is not the right attitude to cope with epidemics.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

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.

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

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

When Jews are sacrificed, you have to ask yourself who will be next.

The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

You know, anytime you take one group and you blame them for a problem, there is an issue.

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.

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.'

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

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.

Discrimination is a disease.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

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

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.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

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

Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame.