Albert Einstein Quotes

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

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

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.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

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

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.

If there are infidels here, then beat them up. Do not tolerate them…. They are like crawling worms, snakes, and maggots.

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

We know, and we must never forget, that every path leads somewhere. The path of segregation leads to lynching. The path of anti-Semitism leads to Auschwitz. The path of cults leads to Jonestown. We ignore this fact at our peril.

The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.

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.

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

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

Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.

Demonization of people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other criteria leads to dehumanization. The notion that some are 'other' is a dangerous and slippery slope.

People were so cruel because of the way I existed.