Morris Dees Quotes

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

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.

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.

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The intolerance of people against other people is growing and growing. And the thing is, this is not anything that's changed. This has been going on for years.

The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism - and my family have been victims of it.

When I was growing up the obvious antisemites were the knuckle-draggers in the National Front.

We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that very easily crosses borders.

While racists see themselves as proudly punching down, anti-Semites perceive themselves as punching up.

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.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

The world is still very bigoted.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

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.