Nia Long Quotes

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Tyler Kent himself is weird and mesmerising - but still unrepentantly anti-Semitic.

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

You can't prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.

I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

The world is still very bigoted.

Judaism is a conspiracy against all races.

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

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.