Ban Ki-moon Quotes

We consider anti-Semitism as a crime against humanity. At the same time we must consider Islamaphobia as a crime against humanity.

The Moors tolerated Christendom when they were ascendant, but the Christian Inquisition harbored no reciprocal emotion.

I am one of the first political leaders officially declaring that anti-Semitism is a crime. I expect an official declaration that Islamophobia is a crime against humanity as well.

I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.

Judaism is a conspiracy against all races.

I fear that the Polish clergy are fundamentally anti-Semitic.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.

When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'

Freedom of religion requires not only freeing religion from undue government regulation and interference. It also requires freeing religion from discrimination and from vile acts of hatred and persecution.

I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life.

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

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.'

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.